The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), a national research infrastructure hosted at the North-West University within the Faculty of Humanities is inviting applications from outstanding early career researchers for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF) in applied linguistics in general and language for academic purposes in particular.
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Fellowship vs Employment
Postdoctoral fellowships (PDF) are awarded in line with section 10(1)(q) of the Income Tax Act of South Africa (See Appendix A for the Binding Class Ruling issued by SARS). In terms of an agreement with HESA, the following stipulations apply:
- A postdoctoral fellowship is regarded as a bursary, and is hence not taxable;
- A postdoctoral fellow is not an employee of the university, and as such can only be required to perform functions related to research;
- The grant is awarded in order to allow the postdoctoral fellows to expand their research skills,
knowledge, intellect and expertise; - Should they wish to do so, a postdoctoral fellow may voluntarily offer his/her services for a maximum of 12 hours per week for which they can be remunerated. This remuneration will be subject to the Labor Laws of South Africa, and will be subject to employees’ tax (PAYE). The fellow will enter into a standard temporary employment contract with the NWU.
- PDF should not be employed or earn full-time salaries while doing the fellowship.