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Enjoy the festive season with these safety tips

13 December 2019 | Story Valentino Ndaba | Photo iStock

safety, road safety — Safety comes first, fun festive second.

Safety never takes a holiday. The University of the Free State’s Department of Protection Services wishes the Kovsie community happy and safe holidays.

Heed these tips when travelling, away on holiday or in the street.

Be aware of your surroundings and any suspicious-looking persons or behaviour (especially in queues);
Report any suspicious behaviour or activity to the central security on-site or the South African Police Services;
Be alert when leaving shopping centres. Should you suspect that you are being followed, drive to the nearest police station;
Jamming devices are frequently used by criminals, so ensure that your vehicle is locked by physically checking it before leaving;
All valuables must be safely stowed away in the boot or under the seats in order to avoid smash and grab incidents;
Do not leave your handbags or valuables unattended while shopping; and
Obey the rules of the road and carry your driver’s licence with you.Happy holidays! Enter 2020 safe and secure!

Happy holidays! Enter 2020 safe and secure!

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Website going dormant from Friday 15 November at 17:00 until Monday 18 November at 07:00

2013-11-09

A modern, crisp new design for the UFS website will launch on Friday 15 November 2013.

The Division: Strategic Communication, in association with ICT Services, has gone to extraordinary lengths to equip the university with a trendy, user-friendly site in keeping with international standards. Focus groups, consisting of staff and students from across all three campuses, were closely involved in the design proses. This will result in a fully-endorsed and proudly-Kovsies website streaming across the globe.

Blackboard (https://learn.ufs.ac.za), GroupWise and the staff Intranet will not be affected by the switch-over.

PeopleSoft Student Self Service will still be available (https://studreg.ufs.ac.za/) as well as KovsieLife Student Self Service (on Bloemfontein Campus only) (http://kovsielife.ufs.ac.za/selfservice) for examination results.

Please take note of the following webpages that will, however, not be available from Friday 15 November at 17:00 until Monday 18 November at 07:00 to users.

Webpages and systems that will be affected:
• UFS website
• Faculty and departmental webpages
• KovsieLife
• Community websites (Afras, Sasse, Vryfees, etc)
• Conferences
• Classified advertisements
• Podcasts
• Student Self Service
• Website administration systems (backend)
• BB Content
• SMS Gateway system

We can hardly wait to share this thrilling milestone in UFS history with you.

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