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15 March 2022
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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The keynote speakers are Dr Khabele Motlosa (right), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at NUL, and leading Pan-Africanist scholar Prof Molefi Kete Asante(left).
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Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS) at the University of the Free State (UFS), together with the
National University of Lesotho (NUL) and the Academic Forum for Development of Lesotho, is hosting an online think tank on the transnational communities of the Lesotho-South Africa border from 19 to 21 March 2021. The theme of the conference is
Lesotho and South Africa: a clarion call for a Pan-Africanist future.
Dr Munyaradzi Mushonga, Programme Director: Africa Studies Programme in CGAS, is the convenor of the conference and is also leading the UFS borderlands panel. The borderlands project is jointly funded by the Office of the Dean: Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS, and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).
For more information and to register for the conference, click here
Faculty of Law serious about research
2009-03-13
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Staff from the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS) recently attended a workshop presented by Prof. Amanda Lourens, Director: Research Support at the North-West University. The faculty, which is involved in Strategic Academic Cluster 3, namely Transformation in highly diverse societies, is serious about their involvement in research and invited Prof. Lourens to share best practices with them. Amongst others they discussed the positioning and involvement of the faculty in the Strategic Academic Clusters of the UFS as well as the possibility to develop a faculty cluster. At the occasion were, from the left: Prof. Loot Pretorius, Department of Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law, Prof. Lourens, and Prof. Gerard Fick, Department of Private Law.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs |