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Come to the 2020 Human Rights Week.

16 March 2020 | Story Xolisa Mnukwa

The Free State Centre for Human Rights in the UFS Faculty of Law invites you to the 2020 Human Rights Week from 17 to 20 March 2020. The programme features a panel discussion, poetry and artistic showcase, an art walkabout, a public lecture, and film screenings. Please see the attached poster. For more information, contact +27 51 401 7216 or FSCHR@ufs.ac.za

Panel discussion: Africa / Human rights / Transformation
Judge J Froneman, Judge D Pillay, and Prof T Falola
Date: Tuesday 17 March 2020
Time: 14:00
Venue: FGG 202, Bloemfontein Campus

Poetry and artistic showcase
Date: Tuesday 17 March 2020
Time: 16:00
Venue: House Karee basement, Bloemfontein Campus

Images of Human Rights – Art walkabout
Date: Wednesday 18 March 2020
Time: 12:00
Venue: C208, Mabaleng Building, Bloemfontein Campus

Human Rights film festival: Selection of short films
Date: Wednesday 18 March 2020
Time: 14:00-16:00
Venue: C12, Mabaleng Building, Bloemfontein Campus

‘Poppie Nongena’ – screening and discussion
Date: Wednesday 18 March 2020
Time: 16:00-18:00
Venue: C12, Mabaleng Building, Bloemfontein Campus

Public lecture – ‘African cultures and human rights’ with Prof T Falola
Date: Friday 20 March 2020
Time: 12:00

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Six Kovsies Stanford College

2014-05-30

Back, from the left: Rudi Buys (Dean: Student Affairs), Philip Kitsopoulos (BCom Law), Ulrich Kristen (Medicine) and Stephan Erasmus (Medicine).
Front, from the left: Sebabatso Makafane (Nursing), Kaylene Pillay (Psychology) and Vuyisile Kubeka (BA Media and Journalism).

Six Kovsie students were selected to attend a three-week seminar at the Stanford Sophomore Collegein September 2014.

Stanford Sophomore College (SoCo) is an immersive learning experience. Participants attend class meetings during the morning and afternoons include class activities, explorations of Stanford, field trips and organised events.

UFS students were invited to apply for one of six SoCo courses in February 2014. After the long wait, the successful Kovsie applicants were recently announced.

The names of these outstanding Kovsie students are:

Sebabatso Makafane, Vuyisile Kubeka and Philip Kitsopoulos – all attending the New Millennium Mix: Crossings of Race and Culture course,
Ulrich Kristen – attending the Resistance Writings in Nazi Germany course,
Kaylene Pillay – attending the Ghost Stories: Why the Dead Return and What They Want From Us course, and
Stephan Erasmus– attending the Responses to the AIDS Epidemic course.

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