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15 March 2022 | Story Rulanzen Martin | Photo Supplied
Dr Khabele Motlosa and Prof Molefi Kete Asante
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).

The 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 isLesotho and South Africa: a clarion call for a Pan-Africanist future. 

The keynote speakers are Dr Khabele Motlosa, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at NUL, and leading Pan-Africanist scholar Prof Molefi Kete Asante

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

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UFS's CFPL talks about investments at convention
2009-09-29

 

At the convention were, from the left: Mr Percy Manduzi, legal advisor at Old Mutual and committee member of FPI Free State, Mr Swanepoel, Mr Botha, Mr Jonker, and Ms Shirly Hyland from the Department of Mercantile Law at the UFS and FPI Free State Committee Member.

The Centre for Financial Planning Law (CFPL) at the University of the Free State (UFS) recently hosted a mini-convention in association with the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa under the chairmanship of Mr Wimpie Jonker. Mr Jonker is also an independent financial advisor for Sanlam.

The convention commenced with a presentation by the well-known radio personality from Radio Sonder Grense (RSG), Mr Theo Vorster. He spoke about investments in the current economic situation. A highlight on Day Two of the convention was a motivational talk by Mr Anton Swanepoel from Amnity Wealth on compliance and ethics. Mr Swanepoel is a renowned author in the financial services industry.

Mr Marius Botha, also a renowned author and independent trainer, brought the audience up to date on all the amendments to the taxation of retirement lump sum benefits. The convention was attended by more than 40 delegates from as far as Upington.

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