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25 April 2022
Photo Jan van der Walt
From the left are Eduan du Plessis (Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and recipient of the SAIPA Prize for Best BCom third year student in Accounting), Johanco Viljoen (Bachelor of Science: Botany and Zoology), Louis van der Walt (Bachelor of Accounting), and Thinus Greyling (Bachelor of Commerce: Investment Management and Banking).
Seventeen years of friendship, with four degrees among them. This is what friends Eduan du Plessis, Johanco Viljoen, Louis van der Walt, and Thinus Greyling celebrated during the University of the Free State’s April graduation ceremony. The four friends – who started their academic careers together at Grey Pre-Primary in 2006 and matriculated at Grey College in 2018 – obtained qualifications during the graduation ceremonies of the faculties of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Economic and Management Sciences.
Thirty years of teaching translation studies celebrated
2006-03-09
Thirty years of teaching translation studies at the University of the Free State (UFS) were celebrated on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. A symposium with the theme One profession - multiple applications was presented to celebrate the occasion, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of the South African Translators' Institute (SATI).
Some of the guests attending the symposium were from the left Dr Anna-Marie Beukes (chairperson of SATI and lecturer at the University of Johannesburg (UJ); Prof Engela Pretorius (Vice-Dean: Faculty of Humanities at the UFS); Prof Philip Nel (Director: African Studies at the UFS) and Prof Jackie Naudé (Chairperson: Department of Afroasiatic Studies, Sign Language, and Language Practice at the UFS and Director: Programme for Language Practice).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs