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28 June 2022
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Story Nonsindiso Qwabe
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Photo ALBERT VAN BILJON
In conversation: Prof Petersen and Leanne Manas.
An outward-looking, globally competitive university that ranks among the top-tier universities in South Africa and on the continent, driven by a strong human-centred, diverse social-justice approach. This is at the heart of the vision
Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS, shared with multi-award-winning
news anchor
Leanne Manas during a sit-down conversation on Friday 22 July 2022.
Prof Petersen reflected on the great strides and difficulties faced during his first term, as well as navigating the UFS through the COVID-19 pandemic to position the institution in a strategic and focused manner as a university of choice on the continent
and in other parts of the globe.
Prof Prakash Naidoo, Vice-Rector: Operations, introduced Leanne Manas
Prof Francis Petersen
Leanne Manas and Prof Petersen In conversation
Leanne Manas
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
Prof Petersen with some of our staff members
From the left; Prof Prakash Naidoo, Leanne Manas, Prof Francis Petersen and Temba Hlasho, Executive Director: Student Affairs
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
From the left; Prof Prakash Naidoo, Prof Francis Petersen and Quinton Koetaan, Senior Director; HRA
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
Higher Education South Africa (HESA) met at the UFS
2006-05-25
Higher Education South Africa (HESA) met today at the University of the Free State (UFS) for its quarterly meeting. Twenty two vice-chancellors from universities across South Africa met in the Main Building of the UFS. The meeting, which normally takes place in Johannesburg, was moved to Bloemfontein to give the vice-chancellors the opportunities to attend the first Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture that will be presented on the UFS campus tonight.
At the meeting were from the left: Dr Theuns Eloff (Vice-Chancellor North-West University and Deputy Chairperson of HESA), Dr Rolf Stumpf (Vice-Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Prof Njabulo Ndebele (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town), Prof Barney Pityana (Vice-Chancellor of UNISA and Chairperson of HESA) and Prof Frederick Fourie (Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs