🗳️ Your vote matters — and so does your experience at the polls! The @IECSouthAfrica and HSRC are continuing their longstanding partnership to understand voters’ experiences during elections through the #ElectionSatisfactionSurvey.

📣 MEDIA RELEASE: The HSRC is calling on all voters to participate in the all-important, countrywide Election Satisfaction Survey (ESS). Read more: loom.ly/s6m0wxA

Over the next few days, we’ll be conducting training sessions to prepare our fieldwork teams for the #ElectionSatisfactionSurvey, where we’ll collect data about your experiences at the voting station this Election Day. We look forward to engaging with voters on Nov 4!

This event aimed to develop a shared understanding of how an Observatory can strengthen South Africa’s national skills system by connecting data, research, and stakeholder knowledge. Read more: loom.ly/EwWFRPE

Since the late 90s, @IECSouthAfrica & HSRC have partnered to research voters’ experiences. On Nov 4, we continue this work at the #LocalGovernmentElections. Look out for our branded stand at randomly selected voting stations & take a quick survey. #ElectionSatisfactionSurvey

#FromtheReview: Using data from South Africa’s National Science Week between 2022 and 2024, this piece explores how traditional and social media were used to communicate science and promote the event. Read more: loom.ly/izfBAj8

#FromtheReview: How do we help young people move from being NEET (not in education, employment or training) to building brighter futures? 🔎 The HSRC explores pathways that connect education & skills development to meaningful employment. Read more: loom.ly/9983bpI

Join us for this webinar to reflect across studies and thematic areas, identify shared questions and lessons, and highlight gaps and opportunities for further investigation. 📆22 OCT 2026 ⏰ 09:30 - 12:00 📍 ONLINE Register here 👉 loom.ly/aEzkhXI

#FromtheReview: How do overlapping crises shape young people’s lives? HSRC researchers explored how poverty, unemployment, violence, climate change and other challenges intersect, drawing on the experiences of 40 young people in KZN. Read more: loom.ly/Uzk8DJQ

#FromtheReview: Drawing on historical evidence, HSRC experts weigh up which economic sectors are most likely to expand the demand for workers in rural municipalities. Read 👉 loom.ly/AGmZm54

Join us for this webinar, which brings together scholarship and creative practice to explore how climate futures are imagined in African contexts. 📆 12 OCT 2026 ⏰ 13:30 - 15:00 Details and resgistration 👉 loom.ly/ToMIbK0

At the HSRC Annual Conference 2026, Prof. Xoliswa Mtose delivered the opening remarks, framing the urgent conversation around artificial intelligence, ethics, & digital humanities across the continent. Watch the full opening address here: loom.ly/zk_JMGg @dstigovza

#FromtheReview: Experts acknowledge the roles of small-scale actors such as street vendors, food distributors and urban farmers, and the many ways to support and learn from them. Read: loom.ly/COPOkNE

The September edition of the the 'HSRC Review' asks: how do the structures we create – markets, policy, institutions, language and technology – shape our ability to live, work, participate and thrive? DIG IN: loom.ly/FDFxqUY

In this episode of #HSRCConnect, researchers explore how South Africa can advance women’s health and wellbeing through more equitable, inclusive and responsive public health approaches. WATCH: loom.ly/p0e46B4

This #HSRCConnect episode asks, how do we build a science engagement ecosystem that is genuinely relevant, trustworthy, and accessible to all South Africans? WATCH: loom.ly/VHbzx0I