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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
Scholars discuss gender issues
2012-08-11
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Attending the International Feminist Journal of Politics keynote lecture were, from the left: Prof. Cynthia Weber, University of Sussex; Prof. Inderpal Grewal, Yale University; Dr Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida and Prof. Heidi Hudson, University of the Free State.
Photo: Johan Roux
10 August 2012 |
Delegates from around the world attended the first annual International Feminist Journal of Politics conference that was held on the Bloemfontein Campus. The theme of the conference was “Leaving the Camp – Gender Analysis across Real and Perceived Divides”. Leading scholars, including Inderpal Grewal, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University in the United States who delivered the keynote address, delivered papers. Prof. Amanda Gouws, newly appointed Commissioner to the Commission for Gender Equality and Bernedette Muthien, activist, poet and director of Engender, also attended the conference.