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15 March 2022
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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
ABSA CEO speaks at the UFS
2010-10-31
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Ms Maria Ramos, Chief Executive Officer of the ABSA Group, was the guest speaker at an Agricultural Market Prospects Workshop on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein on Wednesday, 27 October 2010. Amongst others, she discussed the South African economy and economic policies, business management and the management of businesses over the next two years. In the afternoon the attention turned to the agricultural markets – especially the international perspective, and the markets for grain, livestock and poultry – under the leadership of Prof. Johan Willemse, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at the UFS. Ms Ramos holds an Honorary Doctorate from the UFS and Prof. Willemse is an acclaimed economist. Here are, from the left: Prof. Willemse, Ms Ramos and Prof. Driekie Hay, Vice-Rector: Teaching and Learning at the UFS and also the opening speaker.
Photo: Christiaan van der Merwe.
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