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11 May 2021
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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Prof Walter D Mignolo from Duke University will be the speaker at this year’s Africa Day Memorial Lecture.
The Africa Day Memorial Lecture is an important event for the University of the Free State (UFS) and the
Centre for Gender and Africa Studies. This year’s lecture will be presented virtually by
Prof Walter D Mignolo and will focus on
The beauty
of the sovereign people: Jean Casimir and the decolonial history of Haiti. The discussant will be Prof Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
Africa Day is celebrated annually on 25 May under a different theme. The theme for Africa Month 2021 as declared by the
African Union is:
The AU Year of the Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want.
Follow discussions about Africa Month on social media:
#UFSAfricaMonth | #AfricaMonth| #OneAfrica
About the speaker:
Prof Mignolo is a professor of Romance Studies and professor of Literature. He is the Director of the Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University in the United States of America. He was an honorary research associate in the Centre for Indian Studies in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Read more about Prof Mignolo here
R1,8 million available to create employment
2006-05-23
USAID South Africa has made more than R1,8 million available for the creation of a programme to create employment through agribusiness SMME’s. The programme was established at the Lengau Agricultural Development Centre of the UFS Sydenham Experimental Farm by
the Free State Department of Agriculture, the National African Farmers Union (NAFU), the Mangaung Local Municipality, the University of the Free State (UFS) and ECIAfrica. The aim of the programme is to create an agribusiness model which will mainstream historically disadvantaged farmers into high value markets. In this way economic growth and market driven employment will be stimulated in this economic sector.
During the launch of the programme were, from the left: Ms Deborah Kahatano (ECIAfrica), Prof Herman van Schalkwyk (Dean: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the UFS), Mr Challa Moahloli ( Programme Co-ordinator) and Dr Léan van der Westhuizen (Head of the Lengau Agricultural Development Centre).