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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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UFS, Medi-Clinic and ER 24 co-operate
2007-09-06
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Dr Ezekiel Moraka, Vice-Rector: Student Affairs recently signed a contract on behalf of the University of the Free State (UFS) with Medi-Clinic and ER24. The contract stipulates that the UFS will use Medi-Clinic as its main service provider for its medical services at the university’s rugby stadium (Shimla Park) and other main events on campus, such as the Volksblad annual arts festival. Medi-Clinic donated R60 000 per year over a period of three years to the UFS. The UFS also signed a contract with ER24 to utilise this institutions emergency services during emergencies on campus. The agreement is also valid for a period of three years. At the signing of the agreement were, from the left: Mr Sarel Venter (Area Manager of ER24), Mr Carl Bührmann (Hospital Manager of Medi-Clinic), Dr Moraka, Ms Vivienne Pistorius (Network Marketing Manager of Bloemfontein Medi-Clinic), and Dr Louis Holtzhausen (Director: Kovsie Health at the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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