SALDRU News – Page 2 – SALDRU

Less load shedding? Fewer deaths

25th Jul 202425th Jul 2024Kim Ingle

Joshua Budlender, a Postdoctoral Fellow in SALDRU, shares some key features of his investigation into the effects of load shedding on mortality in South Africa, focusing on Cape Town.

Summer school on African inequalities starts an ambitious Africa-Europe research collaboration

26th Jun 20249th Jul 2024Kim Ingle

Researchers from SALDRU are part of a team who are laying the cornerstones of a 10-year intercontinental collaboration that will investigate how to reduce inequality so that it reduces poverty and deprivation in Africa.

More than a just transition

28th May 202428th May 2024Kim Ingle

SALDRU’s Joanna Ryan and Ariane De Lannoy provide an introduction to the Just Energy Transition and a Green Jobs project in this article.

LRES Findings Launch Conference: Reversing the legacy of spatial inequality and poverty

29th Apr 202430th Apr 2024Kim Ingle

The LRES Findings Launch Conference was held at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. This article shares what was covered at the conference.

HAALSA symposium and Agincourt field visit

27th Mar 202427th Mar 2024Kim Ingle

Members of the SALDRU team working on HAALSA-HARPS, together with SALDRU’s Director Reza Daniels, travelled to Johannesburg for the formal launch of the HAALSA program at a public symposium, as well as several days of associated workshops and meetings.

SALDRU launches research into stimulus effects of Presidency public employment programme

28th Feb 202428th Feb 2024Kim Ingle

SALDRU and Agence Française de Développement launched new research, conducted by SALDRU’s Ihsaan Bassier and Joshua Budlender, into the stimulus effects of the Basic Education Employment Initiative, the largest component of the Presidential Employment Stimulus.

The 2024 Budget – “Staying the Course”

28th Feb 202413th Nov 2024Kim Ingle

Andrew Donaldson provides an overview of the South African Treasury’s recently released Budget Review, which this year is accompanied by a Macroeconomic Policy Review.

International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa

29th Jan 202429th Jan 2024Kim Ingle

Brendan Maughan-Brown attended the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in December. In his role as behavioural science technical expert,

A note from SALDRU’s new director

29th Jan 202429th Jan 2024Kim Ingle

Reza Daniels, SALDRU’s new Director as of January 2024, provides some personal reflections on becoming SALDRU’s Director, outlines his vision for SALDRU going forward, identifies some of the challenges that we face, and discusses our unique position in the global think tank (research unit) space.

South African Modelling Community of Practice Conference

28th Nov 202328th Nov 2023Kim Ingle

Muna Shifa presented at the Presidential Climate Commission's South African Modelling Community of Practice Conference held in October 2023 in Cape Town.