The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the Indian Ocean. All along the ridges are the homesteads of the Xhosa people who ...

An audacious effort joined two disparate communities, who say they all suffer from the staggering violence and crime ...

Lesego Bantsheng and her practice, Rural Futurisms NPC, hope to shake up the notion of landscape – and that, they do. Founded in 2023 and working in Southern Africa, in particular rural northern South ...

South Africa’s rural crisis did not begin yesterday. It is the product of a vast, interconnected system designed to protect corporate profits, maintain elite land ownership and keep farmworkers, ...

It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow ...

Rhodes University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the ...