Dr Kanyiso Ntikinca is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Industrial Sociology at Rhodes University. He teaches and supervises on Global Value Chains and Development, Social Research and the Sociology of Labour Markets. Dr Ntikinca’s PhD thesis is titled:  "Farmers and Farmworkers in the Global Apple Value Chain: A Study of Selected Commercial Apple Farms in the Langkloof Valley of the Eastern Cape, 2018-2022”. This study is based on extensive fieldwork in the Langkloof Valley in Kou-kamma Municipality, the Eastern Cape's largest apple producer and exporter. Dr Ntikinca’s collective research interests are centred around Global Value Chains, Development Studies, Land Reform, Labour Markets and the Sociology of Work. Dr Ntikinca is also an associate of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) based at Rhodes University. This research unit is named after Dr Neil Hudson Aggett, a union organiser and medical doctor who died in 1982 in an apartheid jail after enduring brutality and torture. NALSU is engaged in policy, research, and workers' education. It has a democratic, non-sectarian, non-aligned, and pluralist practice that maintains active relations with a range of advocacy, labour, and research organisations. Dr Ntikinca actively participates in multiple university committees, whilst also serving as a residential manager of Cullen Bowles House, a men’s residence at Rhodes University.

Master’s Research Supervision

Msuthu, Simela. (2020). Now that we have the land: analysing the experiences of land reform beneficiaries in the Makana Municipal District of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Rhodes University.

Moshime, Kabelo Katlego. (2021). Working inside Bank 4.0: analysing the impact of the 4IR on the organization of work in the banking sector of South Africa. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Rhodes University.

Mwansa, Kombe. (2023). Every gig counts: understanding the livelihood strategies of Zimbabwean platform food delivery workers in Makhanda, Eastern Cape. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Rhodes University.

Khoele, Lineo. (2023). Gender, informality and urban livelihoods: examining the livelihood strategies adopted by Black female street vendors in Makhanda, Eastern Cape. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Rhodes University.

Sizani, Simbulele. (2024). Lemons or Lemonade? Examining the economic and social outcomes of engaging in the export-driven citrus value chain of South Africa for selected commercial citrus farmers and farm workers in the Raymond Mhlaba Municipal District, Eastern Cape. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Rhodes University.

Mashamba, Nyaradzo Faith. (2025). Creating a home away from home: examining the working conditions of housemothers employed in a public all-girls boarding school in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Rhodes University.

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