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16 March 2021
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All academic activities have been suspended on all UFS campuses from 17 to 22 March 2021. No online/face-to-face lectures/tests/assignments will take place until 23 March 2021, and the full academic programme will resume on this date.
This decision will allow the university management an opportunity to address outstanding matters regarding the admission of senior undergraduate students.
Administrative activities will continue during this time and the campuses are not closed. The university management is aware that sporadic disruptions of activities by small groups are still taking place on the Bloemfontein Campus.
Protection Services, with the assistance of private security, remains on high alert and is closely monitoring the situation on the campuses. The necessary safety and security plan, as well as contingency plans, are in place.
Please monitor the university’s communication platforms for updates on any developments.
It is important to ensure that your cellphone number is updated in order to receive communication via the KovsieApp and SMS.
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UFS Dean gets international recognition as specialist in Business Law
2009-10-12
 Prof. Johan Henning, Extraordinary Professor en Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS), recently received exceptional recognition as a specialist in Business Law. His comprehensive article about “Partnership law review: The joint consultation papers and the limited liability partnership act in historical and comparative perspective”, that was published in The Company Lawyer in 2005, the only jurist article by a current South African lawyer that was included verbatim as a chapter in the highly acclaimed encyclopaedic work by Stephen & Butler’s (eds) International Themes in Business Law (2009) (Sage Publications London) comprising three volumes.
Prof. Henning is also a part-time Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Comparative Company Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London and has been specialising in Business Law since 1976. Currently he is also Director of the Centre for Business Law at the UFS and occupied the Old Mutual Chair for Business Law at the UFS for ten years.
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