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03 December 2018 | Story Ruan Bruwer
Janko Dreyer
Much will be expected from Kovsie opening batsmen Janko Dreyer at the University Sport South Africa tournament. He has been in great form recently.

The Kovsie Cricket team has enough motivation and are well aware of what’s at stake in the upcoming University Sport South Africa (USSA) championship that will be held in Stellenbosch from 3 to 7 December.

Kovsie Cricket are determined to secure a spot in next year’s Varsity Cricket tournament taking place in Potchefstroom in September, should they emerge as winners of Division B in the competition.

Scoring for the team

They will kick off with a clash against the Walter Sisulu University, followed by fixtures against the Tshwane University of Technology and Wits before the semi-finals on 6 December, with the final following on 7 December 2018.

A number of the Kovsie Cricket squad members have been on rich form with the bat lately. Opening batsman Janko Dreyer scored a century and two half-centuries in his last four innings for the Free State team in November.

Highly rated in SA

Batsmen Raynard van Tonder from the Kovsies Cricket team will feature as one of the most highly-rated young cricketers in the country. The captain of the South African U19 team smashed an unbeaten 250 runs for the Free State in the three-day provincial match last month. Likewise, Wihan Victor also scored a century for the Free State team in October.
More favourable news for the team is that Kovsie Cricket recently defeated the Central University of Technology with 185 runs.

The Kovsie Cricket squad consists of: Dilivio Ridgard, Nathan Roux, Sipho Mavanda, Wihan Victor, Sean Whitehead, Wizzard Ncedane, AJ van Wyk (captain), Nyiko Shikwambana, Jonathan Draai, Marno van Greuning, Beyers Swanepoel, Christo van Staden.

 

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Academic appointed as Visiting Professor in the USA
2009-02-03

 

The Director of Research Development and Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development at the University of the Free State (UFS), Prof. Frans Swanepoel (pictured), has been appointed as Visiting Professor at Cornell University, New York, USA. He has just completed a five-month appointment as a Fulbright Professor at Cornell University. He and Cornell colleagues are collaborating on an initiative to revise agricultural education curricula in Africa, supported by the WK Kellogg and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations. They are also working on a book, The Role of Livestock in Developing Communities: Enhancing Multifunctionality, to be published in June this year. He has also investigated best practice and latest developments in research management and innovation at a number of US universities and delivered the main paper by invitation at a workshop on Research Management at Emerging Institutions at the Society for Research Administrators’ Annual Conference in Washington DC in October last year. Cornell is the only Ivy League University in the USA with a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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