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Murray Leibbrandt goes on sabbatical leave

17th Aug 201830th Aug 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU’s director, Prof. Murray Leibbrandt, is on sabbatical leave for a year from August 2018 to end July 2019. He is spending his academic leave in the U.S., where he is currently based at Yale University until the end May 2019. Thereafter, he visits the University of Michigan until the end of June 2019.

When are wage jobs not worth the trouble for township youth?

26th Jul 201817th Aug 2018Fazila Farouk

It's argued that the pathway out of poverty is through a paying job. But Rocco Zizzamia's research finds that poor urban youth are disproportionately likely to turn down or quit jobs. This finding suggests that jobs may not always deliver the benefits we hope they will.

Congratulations on your promotion, Professor Ranchhod!

30th Jun 20182nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU is very pleased to announce that Vimal Ranchhod, SALDRU’s Deputy Director, has been promoted to full Professor with effect from July 1st, 2018. Ranchhod joined SALDRU as a post-doctoral fellow in 2008, after graduating with a PhD from the University of Michigan in the USA.

How are UCT students funding their studies?

29th Jun 201828th Oct 2021Fazila Farouk

Speaking at the 2018 Siyamphumelela Conference, a three-day event that took place in Johannesburg in June, SALDRU’s Dr. Nicola Branson presented preliminary findings from a study that examines the sources of funding for students at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The study was initiated in response to the wave of 'Fees Must Fall' students’ protests in 2015.

SALDRU launches income comparison tool

29th Jun 20182nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk

Many South Africans don’t understand how exactly their incomes compare to each other nor do we have any idea where we are in the income distribution. To bring some clarity to this question, SALDRU has developed an income comparison tool that allows people to compare their incomes and see how rich or poor they are in comparison to each other.

Spotlight on Top Earners in South Africa

29th Jun 20182nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk

So, how rich exactly are South Africa’s (SA's) top earners? It’s hard to tell, but the tax data for the years 2011 and 2014 was made available to us, so we dove in and discovered a few nuggets of information about SA’s millionaire class. PhD candidate, Janina Hundenborn, shared data on those earning above R10 million annually, as she talked about the effect of top incomes on inequality in SA at a SALDRU seminar.

SALDRU’s Malcolm Keswell on poverty traps in new documentary film ‘Uitgesmyt’

29th Jun 20181st Jul 2018Fazila Farouk

A/Prof. Malcolm Keswell, Lead-Principal Investigator on SALDRU’s Land Restitution Evaluation Study (LRES) provides commentary about the generators of poverty in a striking new documentary directed by Dr. Siona O’ Connell. The documentary, Uitgesmyt, draws attention to the question of forced evictions in rural areas during the apartheid era. Watch the trailer.

Leibbrandt Delivers Department of Science and Technology’s Budget Vote Speech

31st May 20181st Jun 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU’s Murray Leibbrandt delivered the Budget Vote Speech in his capacity as NRF-DST Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research at the Department of Science and Technology’s Budget Vote briefing, which took place at the Iziko South African Museum on 9 May 2018.

International Workshop Examines Income and Wealth Inequality

31st May 201828th Apr 2021Fazila Farouk

Murray Leibbrandt joined 72 of the world’s leading economists at the Paris School of Economics to examine income and wealth inequality in a workshop that sought to review different methodological approaches and establish data collection and production standards among different research groups.

Training Demonstrates Significance of Youth Explorer

30th May 201813th Dec 2020Fazila Farouk

The Youth Explorer, an interactive youth-focused portal, is at the centre of training policymakers and practitioners on evidence-based policy making. The training is part of SALDRU’s efforts to bring together research, policy and practise for the creation of two-way knowledge exchange.