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Dr Johan Coetzee of the UFS nominated as senior member of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council.


Dr Johan Coetzee, Senior Lecturer and researcher in the Department of Economics and Finance and the UFS Business School at the University of the Free State, has been nominated as a senior member of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council.  Dr Coetzee has also been a visiting senior lecturer at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences since 2008. He has published extensively in several local and international journals focusing on banking in particular, and recently also on the impact of fintech developments on the strategic goals of banks. Dr Coetzee’s research interests include understanding the dynamics of bank-client relationships, especially in a banking environment that is increasingly becoming digital.    

The main goals of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council are to highlight excellence in research on the African continent, to promote career development of young scholars, and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration.  Members have been selected for their proven excellence in research, potential for growth, and ability to contribute to engagement with policy makers on the African continent.  The council will also strive to influence evidence-based policy making in Africa, and to communicate scientific research to a wide audience through public engagement.

 The council includes leading scholars in social sciences from not only across the African continent, but from top universities in the world such as Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Stanford, and Princeton universities. Researchers from institutions such as the Bank of Canada, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa further constitute the makeup of the council.
   
“I am extremely proud to be part of the inaugural cohort of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council, as it provides a valuable platform to share ideas with fellow African scholars who understand the economic and management challenges faced by our continent,” Dr says Coetzee.  

“Africa sits with a wealth of talented scholars who merely need the platform to engage and to be part of this research council will surely set the tone for more meaningful research collaboration that solves unique African problems,” he added. “In a world entering a post-COVID-19 environment, we have an opportunity here to not only latch onto the opportunities offered by technology and all that comes with it, but also to do so in a way that showcases the quality of the Academic Project that is proudly African.” 

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Media: Moshoeshoe-lesing waardevol
2006-05-29



Hoofartikel
29 Mei 2006

 

Waardevolle lesing

DIE eerste koning Moshoeshoe-gedenklesing van die Universiteit van die Vrystaat het sommer met die intrapslag prikkelende gedagtes opgelewer en wys dat dit ’n paslike en nuttige manier is om ook die bydraes van swart leiers in Afrika te eer.

Terselfdertyd verskaf die eerste gedenklesing wat deur prof. Njabulo Ndebele, vise-kanselier van die Universiteit van Kaapstad gelewer is, diep stof tot nadenke en debat.

Die gedenklesing kom juis terwyl al hoe meer wenkbroue gelig word oor die skepping van ’n ander forum, die Native Club, waarvan wit Afrikane uitgesluit word.

Dis die geesteskind van mnr. Titus Mafolo, politieke raadgewer van pres. Thabo Mbeki, en die doel daarvan is om ’n forum te verskaf vir Afrika-intelligentsia.

In teenstelling met die ras-eksklusiewe Native Club wat ’n ongelukkige teruggryp is na rasgegronde instellings onder die apartheidsbewind, het prof. Ndebele in die gees van die inklusiewe leierskap van koning Moshoeshoe van Lesotho die gedenklesing opgedra aan al dié mense in Suid-Afrika en elders wat die moed het om hul oorwoë mening uit te druk oor belangrike sake wat die samelewing in die gestig staar.

Hy het tereg bygevoeg dié lesing kom op ’n kritieke punt in Suid-Afrika se nuwe demokrasie.
Prof. Ndebele het daarop gewys dat koning Moshoeshoe – Lesotho het onder sy leierskap mense van verskeie dele van die subkontinent gelok – kon bewys dat verskeidenheid ’n bindende eienskap kan wees.
Jy bereik die grootste eenheid tussen onderskeidende entiteite waar jy relatief vrye ruimte aan hulle gee om hul eiesoortige kenmerke na vore te bring.

Prof. Ndebele het ook opgemerk ’n toenemende aantal hoogs intelligente, sensitiewe en toegewyde Suid-Afrikaners oor die klas-, ras- en kulturele spektrum heen, bely dat hulle soos nooit tevore nie, onseker en kwesbaar voel sedert 1994.

Hierdie koerant spreek ter aansluiting hierby die wens uit dat die ANC-regeringsalliansie sal toesien dat wie ook al die leiding vorentoe in dié alliansie oorneem, ook daardie saambindende eienskappe moet besit wat koning Moshoeshoe gehad het. En wat hy gebruik het om sy land uit te bou en te verenig.

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