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07 March 2018
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Ts’epang Sello, one of the Kovsie contenders
for a medal at Friday’s Varsity athletics meeting.
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The University of the Free State will hope to start developing their next Wayde van Niekerk when the first Varsity athletics meeting takes place on Friday at the Tuks Athletics Stadium in Pretoria.
The second meeting is on 23 March, also in Pretoria.
Thirteen members (five men and eight women) of the Kovsie team of 25 are still under the age of 21.
The hope for medals among the men would be on Sefako Mokhosoa (triple jump), Hendrik Maartens, and Tsebo Matsoso (both 200 m). Mokhosoa, who represented South Africa last year at the Southern Region Championships, is in red-hot form and achieved a personal best of 16.13 m at the Motheo/Xhariep meeting two weeks ago. This is currently the third best distance in the country for 2018.
Maartens would like to go one step further. In last year’s final Varsity meeting, he finished second in 20.62. Great things are expected of Matsoso, a first-year student who competed at the African Junior Championship in 2017. Last year, he was one of the top athletes at school level by winning the SA title in a time of 21.14.
Ts’epang Sello (800 m) and Elmé Smith (100 m and 200 m) will lead the charge for the women. Sello already came close to her personal best (2:09.8) this year, while Smith has also been running fast times. Her best this year was 11.88 (100 m) and 24.53 (200 m).
Tyler Beling (1 500 m) is another first-year student who is showing great potential. She obtained a fourth position at last weekend’s CAA Southern Region Cross-country Championships. Maryke Brits (100 m hurdles and long jump) is a possible medallist, despite running her first event for the year on Wednesday night.
The meeting starts at 17:15 and will be broadcast on SuperSport 5.
Public Protector Adv. Thuli Madonsela to visit Bloemfontein Campus
2012-04-10
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Adv. Madonsela will meet with the senior leadership of the university as well as with government officials.
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10 April 2012
South Africa’s Public Protector, Adv. Thuli Madonsela, will deliver a public lecture in the Wynand Mouton Theatre on the Bloemfontein Campus of the University of the Free State on 17 April 2012 at 17:00.
Before her lecture, Adv. Madonsela will meet with the senior management, staff and students of the university. She will also meet with members of the Free State Legislature, including the Premier, Mr Ace Magashule, and the Executive Mayor of the Mangaung Metro Municipality, Mr Thabo Manyoni. This will take place at the offices of the International Institute for Studies in Race, Reconciliation and Social Justice.
Brief profile of Adv. Madonsela.