Every year on 9 August we celebrate Women’s Day in commemoration of the 1956 Women’s March, when thousands of women marched to Pretoria to protest against apartheid pass laws. Researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are working to better understand the ongoing challenges that women face as well as the ways where the COVID-19 crisis has disproportionately affected women’s lives.
Jeremy Seekings, the director of the CSSR, convened a series of five sessions on social protection policy at the annual conference of the UK’s Development Studies Association.
Joint statement: Education activists and schools take Department of Basic Education (DBE) and provincial education departments to court over backtracking on National School Nutrition Programme
In her latest publication, and as part of a Special Issue on Care and Inequalities in the Global South, Elena Moore examines how low-middle-income, employed black South