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20 December 2020
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Story Thabo Kessah
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Mbuyiselwa Moloi with student volunteers, Keamogetswe Mooketsi (presenter), Tshumelo Phaladi (producer), and Siphamandla Shabangu (SRC member – Social Justice and Universal Access).
The month of October 2020 marked the first anniversary of the Qwaqwa Campus online student radio, Q-Lit. “It has been a rocky road of sleepless nights, tears, and a lot of challenges. However, we have grown from strength to strength. We have made dreams of ordinary students possible. We have influenced change and inspired students to tap into their talents and potential,” said an elated station manager, Mbuyiselwa Moloi.
The station came in handy during the worst lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic when it bridged the communication gap between students and the university to integrate teaching and learning into the programming to ensure that no student was left behind. “With all of the regulations and online learning, Q-Lit had to be reinvented. While it was not an easy journey, we have grown more than ever before. Our August 2020 report shows that we have pulled in more than 1 600 listeners, even amid the learning, unlearning, and relearning processes. It was during this month that we also ran a series highlighting strategic offices led by women on campus as part of our Women’s Month celebration,” Mbuyiselwa revealed.
Looking to the future, the station hopes to obtain a full broadcasting licence from the regulatory body, the Independent Communication Authority of South Africa (ICASA), soon.
UFS students part of winning team in international competition
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The South African team, consisting of students from the Universities of the Free State (UFS), Stellenbosch and Pretoria won a student competition during a conference of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA) that was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Six student teams from across the world took part in the competition. The teams had to develop a business strategy for an Italian company that is threatened by the dreaded bird flu epidemic. Two heats were held and the South African team walked away with the laurels.
The South African team that won the competition were, from the left: Prof André Jooste (Departmental Chairperson: Department of Agricultural Economics at the UFS), Prof Kobus Laubscher (team advisor and lecturer at the UFS Department of Agricultural Economics), Bonani Nyhodo (student at the University of Stellenbosch), Dr Dirk Esterhuizen (Manager: Agricultural Information of the Agricultural Chamber of Business and student at the University of Pretoria), Prof Herman van Schalkwyk (Dean: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the UFS), Olubukola Oyewumi (UFS student), Hilton Madevu (student at the University of Pretoria) and Lindie Botha (UFS student).