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16 March 2020 | Story Xolisa Mnukwa
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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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UFS academic to present paper on making sign language 12th official language
2007-04-11

 A senior lecturer in the Department of Afro-asiatic Studies and Language Practice at the University of the Free State (UFS), Mr Philemon Akach, has been invited by the national Department of Arts and Culture to present a paper on the implications of making South African Sign Language the country's 12th official language. He is expected to give a meeting of the National Language Forum an overall view regarding developments and research on sign language on 12 April 2007 in Pretoria. The National Language Forum is a collaborating network of representatives from national departments, provincial arts and culture departments, Pans ALB and the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Commission.  

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