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Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor.
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here for a letter to the university community from Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS), regarding the recent student protests on our campuses (4 April 2019 on the Qwaqwa Campus and 21 May 2019 on the Bloemfontein Campus).
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hier vir ’n brief van prof Francis Petersen, Rektor en Visekanselier van die Universiteit van die Vrystaat (UV), aan die universiteitsgemeenskap rakende die onlangse protesoptrede wat op ons kampusse (4 April 2019 op die Qwaqwa-kampus en 21 Mei 2019 op die Bloemfontein-kampus) plaasgevind het.
Tobetsa mona bakeng sa lengolo la mokgatlo wa yunivesithi le tswang ho Moprofesara Francis Petersen, Rector le Motlatsi wa Chancellor wa University of the Free State (UFS) mabapi le diketso tsa morao tjena tsa boipelaetso ba baithuti dikhemphaseng tsa rona (ka la 4 Mmesa 2019 mane Qwaqwa Campus le ka la 21 Motsheanong 2019 mona Bloemfontein Campus).
UFS mourns the death of a former Rector
2008-06-23
Photo: Prof. Wynand Mouton, last year during the launch of the UFS's Centenary Book.
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It is with great sadness that the management of the University of the Free State (UFS) heard of the death of Prof. Wynand Mouton (79), former Rector of the UFS.
Prof. Mouton passed away this weekend in the Ferncrest Hospital in Rustenburg as a result of a cardiac arrest. He was visiting his son, Dr Wynand Mouton in Rustenburg when he fell ill three weeks ago and was admitted to hospital. Prof. Mouton’s wife, Daleen, passed away in April this year.
Prof. Mouton was Rector of the UFS from 1976-1988. His ties with the UFS stretch over 60 years. He studied for the B.Sc. degree at the UFS in 1948 and obtained doctorates in Physics and Nuclear Physics in 1960 and 1962, respectively, at the University of Utrecht.
Before his appointment as Rector of the UFS, Prof. Mouton was the first Vice-Rector of the University of Stellenbosch. He was jointly responsible for the establishment of the UFS Sasol Library and helped to stabilise the Development Trust Fund.
“Prof. Mouton left deep footprints at the UFS. He led the UFS to become a foremost research university in the country. Under his leadership, extensive sports fields were also developed on the west campus, including Shimla Park. He enlarged the university’s art collection and saw to it that student productions were staged in a modern, well-equipped theatre (later named after him),” says Prof. Teuns Verschoor, Acting Rector of the UFS.
“I am glad that we could honour him for this and other valuable contributions in 2004 with a Centenary Medal before he passed away,” says Prof. Verschoor.
Prof. Mouton was Chairman of the UFS Council from 1991-1996 and Chancellor of the UFS from 1996-1999. In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the UFS.
“Our sympathies go to Prof. Mouton’s children, Wynand, Hendrik and Ms Saretha Curry, as well as his three grandchildren,” says Prof. Verschoor.
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Media Release
Issued by: Lacea Loader
Assistant Director: Media Liaison
Tel: 051 401 2584
Cell: 083 645 2454
E-mail: loaderl.stg@ufs.ac.za
23 June 2008
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