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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.
Association for academic and non-fiction authors established
2006-09-26
The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors' Association of South Africa (ANFASA) approved the establishment of a Free State branch in Bloemfontein. ANFASA aims to give voice to the interests and concerns of all academic and non-fiction authors. The task team that serves as planning and advisory body is from the left: Mr Sandile Ngidi (author, translator and literary agent), Prof Louis Venter (professor-consultant in academic writing and head of the University of the Free State's Unit for the Development of Rhetorical and Academic Writing), Ms Monica Seeber (Director of ANFASA) and Mr Winston Mohapi (prize-winning author, translator en member of the Sesotho Literature Association).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs