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HSRC Review. Volume 1 Number 2, June 2003 No. JUNE OLUME www.hsrc.ac.za1 V 02 2003 Human Sciences Research Council IN THIS ISSUE PAGE 1 – 2 NEWS ROUNDUP PAGE 3 IMPACT OF HIV ON LAND PAGE 4 – 5 RURAL MUNICIPALITIES IN CRISIS PAGE 6 – 7 GENETIC CLUES FROM AFRICA PAGE 8 THE INTRICACIES OF LARGE SURVEYS PAGE 9 CHANGING ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL NGOs PAGE 10 SCARCE SKILLS: COUNTING OUR LOSSES PAGE 11 FLIGHT OF THE FLAMINGOS PAGE 12 PROFILE: PROFESSOR LINDA RICHTER Africa claims its place in the PAGE 13 NEW BOOKS: DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: human genome puzzle MOVING BEYOND A DIFFICULT LEGACY PAGE 14 EVENTS 2003 Who we are The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is South Africa’s statutory research agency dedicated to the social sciences. It has approximately 150 researchers and 100 support staff. Its revenue comes in equal shares from Parliamentary grant and from earnings (tenders, commissions and foundation grants). What we do The HSRC undertakes ‘social science research that makes a difference’, concerned with all aspects of development and poverty alleviation in South Africa, the region, and in Africa. It undertakes large-scale, policy relevant, collaborative research primarily for government departments at national, regional and local levels, other public entities, and local and international development agencies. How we do it The HSRC has transformed itself to respond flexibly and Message from the CEO, comprehensively to users’ requirements by: Dr Mark Orkin ● radically restructuring and expanding its research capabilities into ten research programmes aligned Sitting with my wife in the rear section of Orlando to major development challenges stadium in Soweto, on the occasion of Walter Sisulu’s ● recruiting top-quality research executives and specialists funeral service, I was powerfully reminded in three ● undertaking national research programmes which integrate its respects of the worthwhile distinctiveness of our work work with that of other science councils, tertiary institutions and in the HSRC. research entities. Firstly, in enjoying ‘Arch’ Tutu’s exhortations, I recalled a university planning seminar a quarter of a How to contact us century ago, when he asked with some exasperation 134 Pretorius Street, Pretoria 16 A+C Barnes Street, ‘What is all this research for?’ Private Bag X41, Pretoria, 0001 Westdene, Bloemfontein Tel: +27 12 302 2999 Tel: +27 51 451 0138 In the HSRC the answer is happily rather simple. Fax: +27 12 326 5362 Tel: +27 51 448 5500 Our statutory mandate is to do, and to facilitate others’ doing, applied social research for the development of Plein Park Building, 133 Prospect Road, our country and our continent, especially through the Plein Street, Cape Town, Walmer, Port Elizabeth large-scale projects spanning countries, collaborators Private Bag X9182, Private Bag X4019, and years of duration that have become our speciality. 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And this was a reminder of how our scientific results are tested: not only, as in a university, HSRC Review is compiled by the Corporate Communications by whether they are sound and true, but also by department, HSRC, and produced by HSRC Publishers. whether such organisations and their representatives Editor: Ina van der Linde can use the findings to improve their members’ lives. Editorial Panel: Karen Bruns, Professor Linda Chisholm, Walter, I thought, we hope we’re doing a halfway Dr Scott Drimie, Adrian Hadland, Percy Moleke, decent job. Certainly your son Max, on our Council, is Dr Vijay Reddy keeping careful watch. Hamba kahle. Images: Iafrika Photos, pp. 3 & 10; ILRIG pp. 4 & 5; Gallo, p.11 Production Management: comPress ON THE COVER Imagining human/ Imagining human by Nadja Daehnke Comments, enquiries and letters can be sent to: formed part of an exhibition co-ordinated by the HSRC HSRC Review during the Human Genome and Africa Conference in Corporate Communications April at Spier in Stellenbosch. The title of the exhibition, Private Bag X41 Lexicons and Labyrinths, is a play on the metaphor of Pretoria 0001 the genome map along with its legend and index that E-mail: [email protected] allows one to find the minute components of the human Fax: +27 12 302 2208 chromosomes. The HSRC also organised a public art competition, What is life? which drew 125 entries from HSRC Review is available free of charge. across southern Africa. Both exhibitions can be seen at It can also be viewed on the web at www.hsrc.ac.za the South African Museum in Cape Town. ISSN 1726 9709 Photograph: Deryck van Steenderen NewsRoundup NEW @ HSRC @ Cycle of credit holds low-income households MR PHILLIP DEXTER, the at ransom executive director of the National Economic Development and Research among a small sample of low- Labour Council (Nedlac), will join income households in South Africa who the HSRC’s Social Cohesion and receive government grants (old-age and Integration research programme child support grants), shows that a large on 1 July 2003. Dexter will take proportion of government grants go part in the Social Fabric Project, which aims to directly to food purchases. Professor Roger Southall and Dr Kristina Bentley assess South African social networks, including Ms Salome Modiselle, a senior in Bujumbura (insert: Ms Emelyne Kaneza) families and faith communities. researcher in the HSRC’s Integrated Rural and Regional Development HSRC researchers DR ERIC UDJO, formerly of the research programme, says in some cases in Burundi crossfire demographic analysis unit and this has perverse effects as it renders head of analysis and statistical grant-receivers dependent on a particular Three HSRC researchers were caught consulting of StatsSA, joined shopkeeper who is prepared to give in the crossfire between a rebel group the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS them credit. and the Burundi national army while and Health research programme The national Department of Agri- on a visit to the capital Bujumbura to as epidemiology and demography culture commissioned the HSRC to finalise a report on the role of former research director. develop a survey method to monitor the South African president Nelson Mandela impact of the volatility of food prices on as the international facilitator for the DR HAYLEY MACGREGOR, households, in particular for low-income Burundi peace process. The role of a research specialist in the Child households. facilitator has now been taken over by Youth and Family Development Although the research sample is Vice-President Jacob Zuma. research programme of the small and these figures are preliminary, In spite of the Arusha Peace Accord, HSRC, holds a doctorate in social it appears, for example, that those buying sporadic fighting still takes place anthropology from the University an 80kg bag of mielie meal on credit pay between rebel factions and the army. of Cambridge. Prior to embarking 16% more than those that buy it without This reality was brought home when on studies in medical anthropology, she qualified credit, accounting for about 5% of the the vehicle in which Professor Roger and worked as a medical doctor in South Africa. monthly old-age grant. Southall, Dr Kristina Bentley and Ms In defence of shopkeepers, it must be Emelyne Kaneza (a Burundi citizen PROFESSOR MELVYN pointed out that they are constantly working on a contract basis for the FREEMAN, former director approached with requests for credit that HSRC) travelled, was caught up in for mental health and substance they must honour lest they quickly find a crowd of fleeing people. Although abuse at the national department themselves out of business. bullets whizzed past them, they were of health, spends 60% of his time As for other ways to access food, not hurt. at the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS low-income households in rural areas The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Health research programme. state that small-scale production for own commissioned the HSRC to do a He is also a visiting professor at the University of consumption is important, but that they report, covering the period up to 1 May Stellenbosch. At the HSRC he will research the social implications of mental health and HIV/AIDS. often struggle because of high seed prices 2003 with the transfer of power and adverse weather conditions. Urban from the Tutsi President, Pierre Buyoya DR RUBBY DHUNPATH, dwellers point to the expense of using to the current Hutu Vice-President, a former English language municipal water, and the problem of theft. Domitien Ndayizeye. educator with a special interest in critical language literacies, Nominations for new HSRC Council organisational behaviour and identity, and life history research, The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is in the has joined the Education Policy process of reconstituting the Council of the HSRC, whose current four-year term Research programme as senior research specialist. expires on 31 October 2003. The Council has up to ten members (plus the CEO) who He is also a former managing editor of the journal, have distinguished themselves in the field of the human sciences or possess special Perspectives in Education. qualifications in relation to some aspect of the functions of the Council.
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