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28 June 2022 | Story Nonsindiso Qwabe | Photo ALBERT VAN BILJON
Leanne Manas and Prof Francis Petersen
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.




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Kovsie student to visit United Kingdom
2006-08-02

A student of the University of the Free State (UFS), Mr Phillip du Preez (21), will visit the United Kingdom for three weeks later this year as part of the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary that was awarded to him. The bursary is awarded annually to a student or junior lecturer at each of South Africa's 15 residential universities who shows exceptional leadership qualities. Mr Du Preez is a third-year in MB Ch B student and serves on the Student Representative Council of the Main Campus for 2005/2006. Earlier this year he was chosen as Kovsie Dux Student for 2006.

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