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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
Prof Barry Rider elected Warden of the Company of Pattenmakers.
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Prof Barry Rider, member of the Court of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers in London and professor honorarius at the Faculty of Law of the University of the Free State (UFS), was recently elected Warden of the Company. This is one of the oldest guilds in London and has a number of distinguished judges, government officials and businessmen amongst its ranks.
From left: Proff Johan Henning, Dean: Faculty of Law at the UFS and Barry Rider during the recent dinner of the Pattenmakers in London