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Story Eugene Seegers
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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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UFS council awards honorary doctorates
2007-03-22
The Council of the University of the Free State (UFS) has decided to confer honorary doctorates on architect Prof. Barend Johannes Britz and author Mr Khotso Pieter David Maphalla.
Prof. Bannie Britz is being honoured for his contribution to architecture and Mr Maphalla for his contribution to the development of the Sesotho language and culture.
Prof. Britz worked as an architectural assistant abroad as well as in South Africa between 1961 and 1964, before establishing his own practice in 1968. He obtained a master’s degree in Urban Design in 1991 and was awarded the Prize of the City of Johannesburg for the best urban design dissertation.
He was appointed as Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the UFS in 1992. Prof. Britz is a member of several professional associations and has received 17 merit awards as well as a gold medal of excellence from the Institute of SA Architects.
Mr Maphalla is a prolific Sesotho author and has contributed significantly to the development of the Sesotho language and culture through his poetry, novels, dramas and short stories.
Most of his books have been prescribed for secondary schools throughout the country. His collected works are still used as reference works for literary studies by African Languages Departments at most South African universities.
Mr Maphalla played a significant role in the establishment of the South African National Sesotho Authors’ Association and has been the recipient of numerous awards for his sterling work. These include the M-net Book Prize in 1996 and a Lifetime Achiever Award in 2005 from the National Department of Arts and Culture, the first and only Sesotho author to have received this award thus far.
Media release
Issued by: Mangaliso Radebe
Assistant Director: Media Liaison
Tel: 051 401 2828
Cell: 078 460 3320
E-mail: radebemt.stg@mail.ufs.ac.za
19 March 2007
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Prof. Bannie Britz
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Mr. Khotso Pieter David Maphalla
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