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2020-11-30 |
Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award for UFS’ Zubeida Jaffer |
2020-11-30 |
Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award for UFS’ Zubeida Jaffer |
2020-11-30 |
Symposium provides course of action for good water management |
2020-11-30 |
Symposium provides course of action for good water management |
2020-11-27 |
Triple book bonanza for UFS Creative Writing programme |
2020-11-27 |
Triple book bonanza for UFS Creative Writing programme |
2020-11-26 |
The health of your mind matters |
2020-11-26 |
The health of your mind matters |
2020-11-25 |
16 Days of Activism in Lockdown |
2020-11-25 |
16 Days of Activism in Lockdown |
2020-11-25 |
Message from the UFS Dean of Student Affairs concerning the 2021 SRC elections |
2020-11-25 |
Message from the UFS Dean of Student Affairs concerning the 2021 SRC elections |
2020-11-25 |
‘It was a privilege to work for the UFS’ |
2020-11-25 |
‘It was a privilege to work for the UFS’ |
2020-11-25 |
New levels of understanding emerge when seemingly unrelated fields of interest intersect |
2020-11-25 |
New levels of understanding emerge when seemingly unrelated fields of interest intersect |
2020-11-25 |
GBV: Lessons from a Pandemic |
2020-11-25 |
GBV: Lessons from a Pandemic |
2020-11-25 |
Eighteen from UFS on Stanford University’s list of leading researchers |
2020-11-25 |
Eighteen from UFS on Stanford University’s list of leading researchers |
2020-11-24 |
Faculty of Health Sciences celebrates history in new book |
2020-11-24 |
Faculty of Health Sciences celebrates history in new book |
2020-11-23 |
Prof Abdon Atangana named in world's top 1% list of scientists |
2020-11-23 |
Prof Abdon Atangana named in world's top 1% list of scientists |
2020-11-20 |
Passionate Entrepreneurs win Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards |
2020-11-20 |
Passionate Entrepreneurs win Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards |
2020-11-18 |
UFS team makes it to top four in CFA University Research Challenge |
2020-11-18 |
UFS team makes it to top four in CFA University Research Challenge |
2020-11-18 |
(Re)moving, (Re)naming, (Re)forming, and (Re)presenting: Webinar shines spotlight on signs, symbolism, and statues |
2020-11-18 |
(Re)moving, (Re)naming, (Re)forming, and (Re)presenting: Webinar shines spotlight on signs, symbolism, and statues |
2020-11-18 |
UFS launches R8 million US Embassy and Consulates-funded research project |
2020-11-18 |
UFS launches R8 million US Embassy and Consulates-funded research project |
2020-11-18 |
South Africa adopts innovative Policy Framework for Internationalisation of Higher Education |
2020-11-18 |
South Africa adopts innovative Policy Framework for Internationalisation of Higher Education |
2020-11-17 |
World Prematurity Day, 84,000 babies born premature in South Africa |
2020-11-17 |
World Prematurity Day, 84,000 babies born premature in South Africa |
2020-11-17 |
Tokenised celebrations of black womanist leaders negate their success |
2020-11-17 |
Tokenised celebrations of black womanist leaders negate their success |
2020-11-16 |
Webinar: Intersection between science and entrepreneurship |
2020-11-16 |
Webinar: Intersection between science and entrepreneurship |
2020-11-13 |
2020 UFS Thought-Leader Series: Predictions for 2021 |
2020-11-13 |
2020 UFS Thought-Leader Series: Predictions for 2021 |
2020-11-13 |
ISG researcher awarded prestigious Colin Murray Prize |
2020-11-13 |
ISG researcher awarded prestigious Colin Murray Prize |
2020-11-12 |
Building a university where everyone can succeed |
2020-11-12 |
Building a university where everyone can succeed |
2020-11-11 |
Student Affairs wants to hear your voice |
2020-11-11 |
Student Affairs wants to hear your voice |
2020-11-06 |
Odeion alumna offers free online music classes to Grade 12s |
2020-11-06 |
Odeion alumna offers free online music classes to Grade 12s |
2020-11-05 |
US Embassy and Consulates invests R8 million in UFS mountain-to-mountain research project |
2020-11-05 |
US Embassy and Consulates invests R8 million in UFS mountain-to-mountain research project |
2020-11-05 |
Prof Moffett publishes new book on mountain research |
2020-11-05 |
Prof Moffett publishes new book on mountain research |
2020-11-05 |
Medical student’s photo highly commended at international competition |
2020-11-05 |
Medical student’s photo highly commended at international competition |
2020-11-04 |
UFS partner in design for groundwater monitoring network for Central Karoo |
2020-11-04 |
UFS partner in design for groundwater monitoring network for Central Karoo |
2020-11-04 |
#EndSARS: Frustration among Nigeria’s youth and the poor |
2020-11-04 |
#EndSARS: Frustration among Nigeria’s youth and the poor |
2020-11-02 |
Next level awaits Lefébre in Europe |
2020-11-02 |
Next level awaits Lefébre in Europe |
Mathatha Tsedu to deliver King Moshoeshoe lecture
2009-06-29
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Mathatha Tsedu |
The former Editor of City Press, Mathatha Tsedu, will deliver the Second King Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein on Wednesday, 9 September 2009.
The King Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture series are an initiative of the University of the Free State to honour the leadership legacy of King Moshoeshoe I, founder of the Basotho nation. The lecture series aim to provide a platform for debate about the key challenges of nation-building, reconciliation and leadership facing our country and the African continent.
In 2004 the UFS produced a documentary on the life of King Moshoeshoe I as part of the project to pay tribute to this great African leader. The documentary was screened numerous times on SABC TV.
Later in 2006, the inaugural King Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture was delivered by Prof Njabulo Ndebele, former vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town.
Mr Tsedu is one of South Africa’s foremost journalists and social commentators. He will speak on the topic, “When globalisation ties the fate of the Maluti to that of the ice caps on the Alps, what does Morena Moshoeshoe teach us about leadership today?”
Mr Tsedu has received several awards, including the Nat Nakasa Award for Courageous Journalism in 2000 as well as the Shanduka Lifetime Achievers Award in 2007.
A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, he started his career in journalism as a bureau reporter for the Sowetan in 1978 responsible for the then Northern Transvaal. Later Mr Tsedu became Political Editor of the Sowetan, the Deputy Editor of The Star as well as the Deputy Editor of the Sunday Independent and Deputy Chief Executive of SABC News.
He has also been the Editor of two major Sunday newspapers, the Sunday Times and City Press and is currently the Head of the Journalism Academy at the Media24 group.
Mr Tsedu is the Chairperson of The African Editors Forum and a Council Member of the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF). He has addressed various organisations on journalism in South Africa, including the International Federation of Journalists; the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; the Botswana Journalist Association; the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists; the Kenya Union of Journalists; and the Union of African Journalists.
He was an active trade unionist and national executive member of the Media Workers’ Association of South Africa. He was detained several times, banned and restricted to Seshego in the Northern Province from 1981 to 1986.
Mr Tsedu is also a short story writer with several of his stories published in various magazines. He was awarded a prestigious Nieman Fellowship in 1996/97 to study at Harvard University in the United States of America.
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29 June 2009 |