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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.
Inaugural lecture of Prof Alice Pell
2006-04-05
The inaugural lecture of Prof Alice Pell as professor extraordinary in the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of the Free State (UFS) was recently held on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. Prof Pell discussed issues around education, agriculture and development. She is Director of the Cornell Institute for Food, Agriculture and Environment.
In front from the left are Prof Magda Fourie (Vice-Rector: Academic Planning at the UFS) and Prof Pell.
At the back from the left are Prof Herman van Schalkwyk (Dean: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the UFS) and Prof Frans Swanepoel (Director: Research Development at the UFS).