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07 June 2019
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Story Eugene Seegers
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Photo Barend Nagel
Tap on the red button labelled ‘Student Login’ at the bottom of the app to log in with your UFS student credentials.
What? Your new KovsieApp is here!
How? Download this mobile app to your phone from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
Why? To access your information from the UFS website (current, registered students only ??).
It’s free! While you are connected to the on-campus Wi-Fi network.
Campus life just became a whole lot simpler. With the app, you can access personal information like study records, marks, class and exam timetables, mini fee statement, etc.
How to log in
Log in like this:
- Download the app, of course.
- Tap on the red button labelled ‘Student Login’ at the bottom of the app (see screenshot).
- Log in with your UFS student credentials.
- An OTP (one-time pin) will then be sent to the cellphone listed on your student profile. Do we have your correct number?
- Enjoy easy access to your personal UFS information with the KovsieApp! Unless…
… we don’t have your correct cellphone number. Please update your most recent contact number to get to your personal information in the app.
Updating your details
Please update your cellphone number by using the Student Self-service page on KovsieLife if you have trouble logging into or using the app.
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Chitja Twala: leading ANC historian
2017-12-25
Dr Chitja Twala is a leading historian on ANC history in the
Free State. Photo: Sonia Small
Dr Chitja Twala is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS), Bloemfontein Campus. Dr Twala has a substantial publication record on the history of the liberation movements, with special reference to the African National Congress in the Free State. He is the author of six chapters and has co-authored two in The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Vol. 4 (1970-1990) and The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Vol. 6 (1990-1996), published in 2010 and 2013 respectively. Dr Twala has a PhD in History from the UFS.
Dr Twala was part of the first group of the UFS Vice-Chancellor’s Prestige Scholars Programme (PSP). He is currently collaborating with Prof Peter Limb from the Michigan State University in the United States of America on a book project on the history of the ANC in the Free State. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in local and international journals. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal for Contemporary History, Yesterday and Today Journal, and South African Journal of Cultural Studies.
Awards received by Dr Twala:
The National Research Foundation
New frontier in Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development Funding
Recipient of the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences at the University of Harvard
US Recipient of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant
Awarded the Mellon Foundation Scholarship 2016-2018