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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.
Deaf Awareness Week
2006-09-08
The University of the Free State (UFS) supported International Deaf Awareness Week, which took place during the first week of September 2006, with the presentation of various events to schools and the deaf communities of greater Bloemfontein.

Ms Emily Matabane (from the UFS Department of Sign Language and chairperson of the Free State Federation of the Deaf) can be seen conveying information to learners in sign language.