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WHITTLESEA COLLOQUIUM ON INITIATION

WHITTLESEA COLLOQUIUM ON INITIATION

Dr Luvuyo Ntombana travelled to Whittlesea to be a guest speaker at a Colloquium which was to deliberate on safer initiation. The colloquium was held on the 27th of November 2011. Dr Ntombana has a keen interest in this area and his Phd thesis was based on circumcision, a very important component of cultural practices in the Eastern Cape. He has also written newspaper articles questioning the manner in which this practice has been diverted by some for personal gain. He has also argued for the introduction of safer initiation methods that do not undermine the value of the traditional methods of initiation.
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SMALL SCALE/HOLDER AGRICULTURE SEMINAR

SMALL SCALE/HOLDER AGRICULTURE SEMINAR

Dr Clifford Mabhena from FHISER presented a paper at the Small scale/holder agriculture seminar that was hosted by Afesis-corplan in East London on the 18th of November 2011. This was Afesis-corplan's 4th quarter seminar. The facilitation of the seminar was done by Dr Philani Moyo who Heads the Sociology Department at Fort Hare, East London campus. The seminar delibarated on very important development issues on Small scale Agriculture, a sector that is riddled with numerous challenges.  Dr Mabhena's paper highlighted critical points on the general decline of Agriculture in the Eastern cape province. His paper was entitled 'Agrarianisation or De-agrarianisation in the Eastern Cape? The implications for the job creation in the agricultural sector'. The seminar organisers also showed a Cuban video that has practical  examples on how people could cope with a crisis and find other ways to survive. During the 1970s oil peak, the Cubans turned to small scale urban agriculture for food provision.
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MASTERS AND PHD RESEARCH PROGRAMME IN EASTERN CAPE STUDIES 2012

MASTERS AND PHD RESEARCH PROGRAMME IN EASTERN CAPE STUDIES 2012

Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research (FHISER), located on the East London campus offers Masters and PhD post graduate fellowships and internships in the following interdisciplinary research programmes; Culture, Heritage and Social Transformation; Land, livelihoods and Rural Development; Urban Renewal, Housing and the city; Youth, Gender and Reproductive Health.

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UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH ASNA2011 CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH ASNA2011 CONFERENCE

The FHISER team attended the ASNA2011 conference which was hosted by the University of Stellenbosch. The papers that were presented by the team focused on a wide range of interesting areas. Prof. L Bank presented a paper on the use of African magic by some of the apartheid police officers in the Eastern Cape. The paper was entitled; Policing with an Impundulu; Cultural Politics, invisibility and Law enforcement. Dr Teressa Connor and Tendesai presented on issues linked to democracy with specific focus on Butterworth. Rosemary presented on the conflict between protection in the constitution and gay human rights in Kenya. Solomzi looked at Cultural dynamics in Mgwali cultural village. Octavia's paper was on White poverty and citizenship in post apartheid South Africa.
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FORT HARE-OXFORD EXCHANGE PROGRAMME 2011

FORT HARE-OXFORD EXCHANGE PROGRAMME 2011

The University of Fort Hare welcomes the University of Oxford exchange team that has come to teach a course on
Research methods. This exchange programme has run for a number of years and has proved to be
very useful to both Masters and Phd students at the University of Fort Hare.
The Oxford visiting team is led by Oliver Murphy, a Phd candidate at the University of Oxford who has also
done intensive fieldwork in the Eastern Cape.
This year, the course content is also focusing on Research Methods in African Studies, a post graduate programme that
has been recently introduced at the Institute.
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PERMANENT PERSUADERS 1945-1969 VETERANS OPEN DAY

PERMANENT PERSUADERS 1945-1969 VETERANS OPEN DAY

The University of Fort Hare successfully hosted the veterans from all over the Eastern Cape Province on the 9th of August 2011 in East London.The University of Fort Hare Vice-Chancellor Dr Mvuyo Tom openned the session and welcomed all the veterans and other delegates to the Veterans Open Day event. He also highlighted the strategic role played by Fort Hare in grooming South Africa's political leaders.
Rev. Dr Luvuyo Ntombana, a Senior Researcher at the Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research also appreciated the role played by the veterans in the struggle for freedom in South Africa.  This historic event
highlighted significant points about the role played by various people in the liberation struggle. One of the most important contributions by the veterans was made by Mda Mda,a Fort Hare Graduate, teacher and lawyer.
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PERMANENT PERSUADERS CONFERENCE 8TH-11TH AUGUST 2011

PERMANENT PERSUADERS CONFERENCE 8TH-11TH AUGUST 2011

The University of Fort Hare is proud to be hosting the Permanent Persuaders Conference from the 8th-11th of August 2011. Read more on conference programme,


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Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City

Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City

 

This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s.

Leslie Bank returned to the areas of East London studied in the 1950s to assess how social and political changes have transformed these areas, in particular the apartheid reconstruction of the 1960s and 1970s and the struggle for liberation followed by the post-Apartheid period in the 1980s and 1990s (Pluto Press).


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PERMANENT PERSUADERS: CULTURE, POLITICS AND NATIONALISM IN THE EASTERN CAPE, 1945-65

PERMANENT PERSUADERS: CULTURE, POLITICS AND NATIONALISM IN THE EASTERN CAPE, 1945-65

This conference aims to take a new and critical look at culture, politics and nationalism in the Eastern Cape in the post-war period, reflecting on processes of social, cultural and political change. This is examined through the prism of the lives of key Eastern Cape intellectuals, cultural brokers and political activists – who we call ‘permanent persuaders’, borrowing from Gramsci.


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Frontiers of Globalization: Kinship and Family Structures in Africa

Frontiers of Globalization: Kinship and Family Structures in Africa

FHISER Director Leslie Bank has contributed a chapter to the book Frontiers of Globalization: Kinship and Family Structures in Africa, published this month by Africa World Press.
 
The book is a collection of papers presented to a 2008 experts meeting on Family Structures and Globalization in Africa, sponsored by the Social Trends Institute in Barcelona.

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LAUNCH OF PUBLICATIONS UFH

LAUNCH OF PUBLICATIONS UFH

FHISER is producing a new series of publications on Eastern Cape Basic Services Delivery and Socio-economic Trends. The series aims to provide up-to-date information and analysis on service delivery challenges and socio-economic trends in the Eastern Cape.
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African Anthropologists Rediscovered

African Anthropologists Rediscovered

FHISER CELEBRATES AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC WORK


In the new series of publications FHISER hope to profile the life and work of significant African Anthropologist. The first scholar to be profiled in this series was Monica Hunter Wilson, who was born in Lovedale in 1908 and died in the Hogsback in 1982, after a distinguished academic career. Read more.

In September 2010, FHISER hosted an exhibition and book launch celebrating the life and work of Archie Mafeje, originally from the Engcobo district of the Transkei, who emerged as one of the leading African social scientist of the 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition and booklet explore the early life of Mafeje and his coming of age as a social anthropologist in South Africa.

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