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Senior Lecturer, Anthropology and Sociology, Nelson Mandela University.

Mnqobi Ngubane grew up on a former German mission station, Muden, Kwazulu-Natal, where he was raised by maternal grandparents. His maternal grandmother was born into a family of labour tenants on white owned farmland in the early 1930s, and later found refuge on a mission station, escaping oppressive social relations on white owned land. His maternal grandfather was a migrant worker, in Durban, and mainly Johannesburg. Social relations on labour tenant farms formed part of the stories that his grandmother told in his upbringing, which were to go a very long way in Mnqobi’s scholarship in rural sociology.

The effectiveness of the 4ir technologies in elevating small-scale farming at Kwadlangezwa, Kwazulu natal in South Africa.
With the emergence of new technologies from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Industrial Revolutions, the productivity increase of agricultural and farming activities has been crucial to increasing yields and cost-effectiveness. Prior studies on the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) have focused on agricultural technologies but have ignored small-scale farmers.
Before adopting the 4IR, the purpose of the study was to evaluate the agricultural challenges facing small-scale farmers

Tembeka Nicolas Ngcukaitobi SC is a South African lawyer and legal scholar. An advocate of the Johannesburg Bar since August 2010, he gained silk status in February 2020. He is currently a member of the Judicial Service Commission and a part-time member of the Competition Commission's Competition Tribunal.