A student from the University of the Free State's (UFS) Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management, Ms Pulane Mahloka, recently received the gold medal for exceptional final year student in South Africa for 2006 from the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS). She is the first black student to received this prestigious award. She is the fourteenth UFS student since 1970 to receive this medal, of which six are women. Pictured are, from the left: Mr Hendrik van Vuuren (Lecturer at the UFS Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management), Ms Mahloka and Ms Benita Kotze (Lecturer at the UFS Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management).
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