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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 academic receives PhD from the University of London
2009-11-12
A lecturer from the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS), Ms Mathapelo Matsaneng recently received a PhD in Corporate Law from the University of London in the United Kingdom. Ms Matsaneng, who had worked as a Junior Lecturer in the Departments of Mercantile Law and Constitutional Law in 2001, teaching Commercial Law, Interpretation of Statutes and Gender Studies was awarded a scholarship by the UFS and the Atlantic Philanthropies to study at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London for her PhD in Corporate Law. Since her return from London she is working in the Department of Mercantile Law, teaching Corporate Law.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs |