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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).
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 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
UFS Dean gets international recognition as specialist in Business Law
2009-10-12
 Prof. Johan Henning, Extraordinary Professor en Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS), recently received exceptional recognition as a specialist in Business Law. His comprehensive article about “Partnership law review: The joint consultation papers and the limited liability partnership act in historical and comparative perspective”, that was published in The Company Lawyer in 2005, the only jurist article by a current South African lawyer that was included verbatim as a chapter in the highly acclaimed encyclopaedic work by Stephen & Butler’s (eds) International Themes in Business Law (2009) (Sage Publications London) comprising three volumes.
Prof. Henning is also a part-time Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Comparative Company Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London and has been specialising in Business Law since 1976. Currently he is also Director of the Centre for Business Law at the UFS and occupied the Old Mutual Chair for Business Law at the UFS for ten years.
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