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01 October 2019
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Story Xolisa Mnukwa
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Photo Xolisa Mnukwa
From the left; Gift Taku, 2019 Doty winner; Reabetswe Mabine, Doty Coordinator Tshepo Zweni, first runner-up and Jacobeth Selinga, second runner-up
The votes have been tallied, and after much deliberation, the UFS is proud to announce Gift Taku as the winner of the 2019 KovsieGear Designer of the Year (DOTY) Competition!
Tshepo Zwane and Jacobeth Selinga won second and third place respectively, with innovative designs that complied with the assessment requirements, based on originality of the design, adherence to the brand guidelines, creativity, and other criteria.
Gift’s design triumphed with 845 votes on the UFS KovsieLife webpage, as well as in the presentation in front of a judging panel.
Since 2016, KovsieGear has been discovering local (UFS staff and students) graphic designers and giving them a platform to showcase their work through DOTY, which runs annually. The aim of the competition is to support local talent by giving entrants an opportunity to come up with creative designs that are unique to the university and which will be used on limited-edition apparel in the store, as well as getting featured in the KovsieGear catalogue.
The competition has since fashioned the best clothing-logo designs the university has ever seen and continues to motivate and empower students to make positive contributions to the Kovsie campus culture and brand.
For more information about DOTY contact Reabetswe Mabine at MabineR@ufs.ac.za
The winning design by Gift Taku:

Cattle farmer conference presented at UFS
2008-10-15
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The University of the Free State (UFS) and the Glen Agricultural Institute recently presented a cattle farmer conference on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. The theme of the conference was “Economical survival of the beef cattle farmer”. Prof. Herman van Schalkwyk, Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, gave the global picture whilst Prof. Johan Willemse, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, spoke about South African beef cattle farming in a changing and challenging economical environment. At the conference were, from the left: Prof. Johan Greyling, Head of the Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences at the UFS, Prof. Willemse, Dr Johann Erasmus, Assistant Director: Animal Science at Glen Agricultural Institute, and Prof. Herman van Schalkwyk.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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