SALDRU News

Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) are pleased to announce a two-day workshop. It will be hosted 8 & 9 December 2025, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

In this article Ariane De Lannoy reflects on what the Quarterly Labour Force Survey Data tells us about young people who remain disconnected from education and employment and how these findings relate to the lived realitie of young people.

SALDRU had a very strong presence at the AIDSImpact Conference, which was held in Casablanca from the 26th to the 28th of May, 2025. Dr Brendan Maughan-Brown presented five oral presentations and chaired a session.

SALDRU invites applications to the below two one-week Stata training courses to be held at the University of Cape Town in July 2025. Applications close on 23 June 2025.

In this article, Amy Thornton describes how she and Jacqueline Mosomi showed that the shock in demand for at-home childcare triggered by the Covid-19 lockdowns affected women’s paid work hours more negatively than men’s.

Effective community-level development requires granular insights into well-being disparities. The Community Explorer is an interactive online platform designed to map, analyse, and visualise community-level well-being data in South Africa

The Basic Package of Support (BPS), designed as an integrated, youth-responsive intervention to tackle the various barriers faced by young people, has just launched its first tracer study.

A day before SALDRU’s South Africa at 30 Years of Democracy opened, a policy dialogue on the intricate relationship between inequality, poverty, and economic growth policies served as a prelude to the conference that followed.

The South Africa at 30 years of democracy conference took place at the beginning of April. As part of the programme, SALDRU researchers chaired or organised panel sessions reflecting on the development of key policy areas from 1994 to now.

In this article SALDRU Director Reza Daniels provides a summary and reflection of the discussions that took place over the the three days of engagements on a range of important policy questions.

South Africa’s finance minister faces opposition to his budget proposals, both in cabinet and in parliament. Traditionally, spending and revenue proposals are presented on Budget Day as the consolidated fiscal plan of the government.

A UCT delegation engaged with the Human Rights Commission on alternatives to Temporary Relocation Areas.