South Africa ??? through partnerships encompassing the government, business, academia, labour and civil society ??? has embarked on a process of developing a national strategy and plan of action for harnessing the Fourth ...

A key question that this policy brief addresses is: How can township innovation hubs contribute to building local innovation and production capabilities? The brief identifies specific ways for township innovation hubs to ...

With female names, voices and characters, artificially intelligent Virtual Personal Assistants such as Alexa, Cortana, and Siri appear to be decisively gendered female. Through an exploration of the various facets of ...

Topics covered in the questionnaire are: socio-demographic and family characteristics, participation in other programmes/ interventions, relationship status, knowledge of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, socially ...

In South Africa, public research institutes (PRIs) face the dual challenge of linking their national system of innovation (NSI) to global knowledge flows and the frontiers of science, while seeking solutions to context-specific ...

South Africa is experiencing a rise in local government-related political violence directed at municipal councillors and officials. Threats, intimidation, malicious damage to property and political assassinations sometimes ...

South Africas migrant labour system, enforced by the hated pass laws, was a fundamental component of the apartheid political economy as it developed during the 20th century. In its heyday, the system structured black lives ...

Male circumcision is considered by some to be an acceptable global approach to reduce HIV infections. Consequently, many governments in sub-Saharan Africa run voluntary male circumcision programmes. South Africa also ...

This paper interrogates the relationship between South Africa's most important piece of educational policy, the South African Schools Act (SASA) (Republic of South Africa, 1996b), and learner identity. It seeks to understand ...

This article revisits the Marikana massacre of 2012 in order to address the meaning of the cultural politics of ethnicity, migrancy and nationalism at the time of the massacre. In the aftermath of the Marikana massacre, ...