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18 March 2021
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Story Xolisa Mnwuka
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The 2021 Bloemfontein Campus Student Representative Council (CSRC) Elective Portfolio Elections will be held online from 23 to 26 March 2021. A first-time experience for the University of the Free State (UFS)!
All registered UFS students are
entitled to vote for candidates to serve in the elective portfolios. Student councils will nominate their respective chairpersons as candidates for ex officio portfolios.
Your Vote is Your Voice, Your Vote Counts!
For more information
about who you to vote for, and how to vote, visit the election website here: www.ufsvote.co.za or call the toll-free number on +27 0 800 061 052.
‘Gaza doctor’ Izzeldin Abuelaish visits UFS
2011-10-12
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Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish
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Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish, Harvard graduate and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, is a Palestinian doctor who became the centre of a media firestorm in January 2009 when three of his daughters were killed and members of his family injured in an attack on Gaza (see e.g. The New York Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/world/middleeast/18doctor.html ). He is the author of the bestselling I shall not hate: a Gaza doctor’s journey on the road to peace and human dignity. Dr Abuelaish will present two public lectures on 17 and 18 October 2011. Dr Abuelaish was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.
The 18 October lecture in the Faculty of Health Sciences is registered for 2 ethics ceu's on Level 2, reference number: MDB004/002/10/2011.
Date: 17 October
Time: 19h00-20h00
Venue: Education Faculty Auditorium (new building behind Sasol Library)
Title: "I shall not hate": A Gaza Doctor's Transformational Journey of Loss, Love and Change
Time: 12h45 vir 13h00-14h00
Venue: Health Sciences Faculty Metro 3 (across Francois Retief Building)
Title: A healing bridge: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
For information: call the International Institute for Studies in Race, Reconciliation and Social Justice (401 9808) or Prof Jackie du Toit:
dutoitjs@ufs.ac.za