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CGAS co-hosts national online think tank on Pan-Africanist futures

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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Journal for Contemporary History handed over

2005-06-10

The Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) handed a special edition of the Journal for Contemporary History to Prof Teuns Verschoor, Vice-Rector: Academic Operations and Prof Gerhardt de Klerk, Dean: Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS.

Most of the articles in the journal, which appeared earlier this year, are about facettes of the first decade of democracy in South Africa.

The Department of History has the highest research output in the Faculty of Humanities at the UFS for the period 2002-2004 and also boasts with the highest number of research articles appearing in accredited journals.

From left: Prof Teuns Verschoor, Vice-Rector: Academic Operations; Prof Gerhardt de Klerk, Dean: Faculty of the Humanities; Prof Leo Barnard, Head: Department of History and Prof André Wessels from the Department of History

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