Applications are invited from South African PhD humanities graduates for the position of postdoctoral researcher in a Trans-Institutional Critical Food Studies Research Programme.

A gentle prod for scholars to learn more about a problem by working with and learning from ‘stakeholders’ who aren’t academics. To reimagine that relationship would demand that scientists move outside of their comfort zones and skillsets. But that normally proves easier said than done, and frustrating. The end result of which is that scientists then fall back on tried-and-tested means of producing knowledge, argue the authors of a paper titled ‘Making Sense Together’, citing their work on food security in the Western Cape.

08h30, 21 November 2019, Life Science Auditorium, UWC 

Food studies in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa tends to focus more on hunger-related and nutritional issues, rather than on broad humanities-oriented, socially determined ways of considering how human beings relate to or experience food. 

 

World science day for peace and development takes place on 10 November.

Africans must work together to develop scientific and technologically advanced solutions to eliminate barriers and advance sustainable development across the continent.

We are wasting our time talking about living wages and inspectors and new technologies. We need to talk about the fact that our government has sold the livelihoods of ordinary people to big corporates.

 

‘We were thrown out like dogs. The police came with guns. My mother was preparing breakfast and the pots were thrown on the ground. Our furniture was broken. No one helped us.These were just some of the painful memories of evictions shared with delegates at the ‘Future of Farm workers conference which was held at the University of the Western Cape last week.

The lives of Charnell Jantjies and Rozeanne Booysen was changed almost immediately after telling their heartbreaking stories at the National Conference on the Future of Farm Workers in South Africa, thanks to a determined community activist.

 

 

 

Day two of the National Conference on the Future of Farm Workers in South Africa got off to a heated start as the Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, fielded a storm questions from farm workers themselves.

 

Farm workers attending the Future of Farmworkers conference, currently underway at the University of the Western Cape, were very vocal about their dissatisfaction with the minimum wage of R18 per hour for their labour that came into effect on January 1 this year.

The meals served to farm workers attending the National Conference on the Future of Farm Workers reminded them of the families they had left behind on the farms, often with little to eat.

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