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23 November 2018
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MEDIA RELEASE: UFS COUNCIL APPROVES RELOCATION OF MT STEYN STATUE TO A SITE OFF CAMPUS
The Council of the University of the Free State (UFS) approved the relocation of the statue of President MT Steyn to a site off campus during its quarterly meeting on 23 November 2018. Council furthermore requested that the relocation must be done in complete cooperation with the family of President MT Steyn.
The decision of the Council follows a recommendation made by the Special Task Team in a report to the Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Francis Petersen, that the statue should be relocated to a site off campus.
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The 25th DF Malherbe Memorial Lecture, presented by the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State (UFS), was presented recently on the Main Campus by Dr Theuns Eloff, Vice-Chancellor of North-West University. The topic of the lecture was "Welkom tuis, meertalig en divers - gedagtes oor universiteite en taal". At the lecture were, from the left: Prof. Hennie van Coller, head of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French, Prof. Teuns Verschoor, Acting Rector of the UFS, Dr Eloff and Prof. Lucius Botes, Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS.
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