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31 July 2020
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As a public higher-education institution in South Africa with a responsibility to contribute to public discourse, the University of the Free State (UFS) will be presenting the 3rd UFS Thought-Leader Series in collaboration with Vrye Weekblad as part of the Vrystaat Literature Festival’s online initiative, VrySpraak-digitaal.
This year, higher-education institutions
globally are placed in the challenging context of COVID-19. Aware and grounded in the reality that the world will not return to the normality of pre-COVID-19, our responsibility as scholars still remains to contribute to public discourse and to offer
innovative solutions that will impact the lives of people nationally and globally in order to help them understand and adapt to a new world order.
Against this background and context, this year’s debates focus on ‘Post-COVID-19, Post-Crisis’,
with Health and Modelling, Politics, Economy, and Predictions for 2021 as the sub-themes. Placed in a COVID-19 context, and in lieu of the Vrystaat Arts Festival,
the series will be presented virtually in the form of one webinar per month during the period August 2020 to November 2020.
Date: 13 August 2020
Topic: Health
and Modelling
Time: 11:30-13:00
RSVP: Alicia Pienaar, pienaaran1@ufs.ac.za
Facilitator:
Max du Preez
Editor: Vrye Weekblad
Biography
Introduction and welcome:
Prof Francis Petersen
Rector and Vice-Chancellor, UFS
Panellists:
Prof Salim Abdool Karim
Director: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
Chair: South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19
Biography
Prof Glenda Gray
President and CEO: South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
Biography
Prof Felicity Burt
NRF-DST South African Research Chair in vector-borne and zoonotic pathogens research
Biography
#FaceOfFacebook 2015/2016
2015-04-13
Vote for your favourite before 16 April at 16:00
Kovsies #FaceOfFacebook was born from the need to communicate with students, and thus become a virtual friend. Yearly auditions are held to choose the new face representing the UFS on Facebook. The successful candidate holds the title of #FaceOfFacebook for the next 12 months, attending events, and filming short video clips to post on our Facebook page.
Here are our top six:
- Cayley Ann Butcher (http://on.fb.me/1CNKzLj)
- Nompumelelo Maseko (http://on.fb.me/1NwWMPD)
- Thandiwe Nku (http://on.fb.me/1z9AwiW)
- Tshepiso Nkosi (http://on.fb.me/1FNEK4F)
- Liteboho Bohloa (DJ Heavy D) (http://on.fb.me/1FBJJ62)
- Reabetswe Mokone (http://on.fb.me/1NwW2tP)
The next phase of our #FaceOfFacebook auditions involves you. Go to the UFS Facebook page to view the videos of our Top Six contestants, and like your favourite. Each like will count as a vote.
And, in the words of one of our contestants: "Do the right thing; tell a friend to tell a friend that Kovsies' #FaceOfFacebook is on again."
Deadline for voting is 16 April 2015 at 16:00.