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10 January 2020
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Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs
Welcome to the University of the Free State! This is an opportunity to enjoy yourself and have the best years of your life. This is the message from Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs at the University of the Free State, to new first-year students.
About 7900 new first-year students will start their study journey at the UFS this year, and Pura has some advice for the new Kovsies.
WATCH: Message from Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs
UFS evaluates children’s bright ideas
2008-12-04
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The University of the Free State’s (UFS) Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences evaluated the business plans of the participants of the Senwes annual entrepreneurial competition. The winner of the primary school division of the competition is Danie Jacobs (back, second from the left) from Jim Fouché Primary School in Bloemfontein. With his winning project “play traditional”, an initiative to get children to play again, he marketed the ingredients for amongst others tip cat (kennetjie) in a little bag. In the second place (front, left) was a group from Koot Niemann Primary School, east of Bloemfontein: Candice Storm, Megan Reep, Chantelle Julius, Shunelle Vorster en Kornisha van Staden. Back from the left is Mr Pieter Esterhuizen, Chief Manager of Senwes Grainlink, Jacobs, Rudo Peens (third place, Sand du Plessis Primary School) and Dr Johan van Zyl, Head of the Unit for Entrepreneurship at the UFS.
Photo: Landbouweekblad
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