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The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS) and the UFS will host an Africa Day Webinar on the topic, Reflections on Africa amidst Covid-19, to be delivered by Prof. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, renowned decolonial scholar. The title of his lecture is Revisiting the African idea of Africa during the moment of Covid-19 pandemic.
The crisis delivered by Coronavirus and Covid-19 invites Africans to rethink and even unthink the long-standing dependency on Europe and North America for help. What has dawned on Africa is the equally long-standing aspiration of self-reliance. What is emerging is a new African idea of Africa which takes responsibility for its own challenges. This new African idea of Africa challenges the Mudimbean idea of Africa embodied in the colonial library.
Thus this presentation reassesses how Africa has relied on its own historical experience, its own knowledge, and own people to confront Covid-19. What is of interest here is the proverbial wisdom of necessity being the source of invention. The presentation brings to the fore the decolonial turn as it gestures beyond crisis into post-Covid-19 world order. It ends with a call for decolonial love founded on new ethics of living together and new economies of care.
Bio of Prof Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatshen
Date: Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
Time: 14:00
Duration: 90 min max (45 min talk, 45 min Q&A)
The webinar can be accessed via one of the following links:
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Seminar on science in rugby
2006-05-08
About 60 rugby trainers, sports physicians and fitness experts from all over the Free State attended a seminar on science in rugby on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein. The seminar was presented by the UFS Sports and Exercise Science Medicine Clinic and Life Healthcare. Useful information on scientific exercising methods, fitness testing, monitoring of under and over exercising and the practical planning of a match day were given.
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Some of the people attending the seminar were from the left Dr Louis Holtzhausen (Director: UFS Sports and Exercise Medicine Clinic), Dr Pieter Fischer (general practitioner from Jan Kempdorp), Col Peet Kleynhans (former trainer of the Cheetah Rugby Team) and Mr Gerhard van Rensburg rugby trainer of Grey College Primary School).