South Africa: NRF’s postdoctoral funding model is based on government guidelines

It is generally accepted that context matters a great deal to text and all forms of communication, so much so that American painter Kenneth Noland is famed for proclaiming that “context is the key – from that comes the understanding of everything”.

The Daily Maverick opinion article by Dr Mariette van der Walt titled “New postdoc study funding rules threaten the very foundation of scientific progress” is perturbing to the National Research Foundation (NRF) for its failure to…