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Communique from the Rector and Vice-Chancellor to the University Community

27 May 2019 Photo Sonia Small

Prof Petersen opinion piece — Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor.

Click 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).

Klik 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).

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Over 300 diplomas in Financial Planning Law awarded

2012-06-28

Adv. Wessel Oosthuizen, Director of the Centre for Financial Planning Law; Marilize Putter, top student in the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning Law, Jenny White, top student in die Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning Law and Prof. Rita-Marie Jansen, Acting Dean: Faculty of Law at the UFS.
Photo: Stephen Collet
28 June 2012

The Centre for Financial Planning Law (CFPL) in the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS) awarded 342 Postgraduate and Advanced Postgraduate Diplomas in Financial Planning at this year’s graduation ceremony. The ceremony was held at the Sandtion Conference Centre in Johannesburg on 19 June 2012.

Some of the distinguished guests who attended were Dr Khotso Mokhele, Chancellor of the UFS, Dr Derek Swemmer, Registrar of the UFS, Prof. Nicky Morgan, Vise-Rector: Operations at the UFS, Prof. Helena van Zyl, Director of the UFS’s Business School, Prof. Rita-Marie Jansen, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law and Adv. Wessel Oosthuizen, Director of the CFPL. The Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa, Mr Godfrey Nti, and the Chairperson of the Board, Mr Solly Keetse, were also present at the graduation ceremony.

Marilize Putter was named as the top student in the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning Law, with Jenny White the top student in die Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning Law.

The UFS remains the largest institution in this field. The UFS’s Centre for Financial Planning Law is also the only institution in South Africa that presents the Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning Law as a pure specialisation diploma.

Donors who made the event possible include:

Craig Bentley of Alexander Forbes
Dev Chetty of Liberty Life
Henry van Deventer of Acsis
Tessa Pappenfuss of Lexis Nexis
Bertie Nel of Momentum

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