Call for Applications for NRF Freestanding, Innovation and Scarce Skills Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2017
The National Research Foundation (NRF) in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) are pleased to announce the call for scholarship applications for 2017 in the following categories:
Sinethemba Makanya, a WiSER medical humanities doctoral student, has been named one of the Mail & Guardian's 200 Young South Africans in the field of Science & Technology...
Submitted by Sarah Nuttall on 27 November, 2018 - 17:43
Statement from Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe on “Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation” Conference (Stellenbosch University)
We, like a large number of South African and international scholars, firmly oppose Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and support the boycott as a non-violent strategy for ending the occupation.
Congratulations to Editor Makhosazana Xaba, and the 23 contributors on winning the NIHSS award for non-fiction. The compelling book, Our Words Our Worlds, explores the history and impact of poetry by black women.
The vastly different perspectives and treatments in two recent books about Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera leave the reader with tantalising questions beyond the subject matter.
My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is at assembly at an out-of-the-way rural boarding school. I was twelve. At this point I don’t know his story or reputations. His gender is fluid. For a while he stayed a woman in my imagination. He is not a man. Androgynous. – Tinashe Mushakavanhu
