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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).
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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
Praise for presentations
2011-12-08
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| Breakthroughs in nano research at our university caught attention around the world. Prof. Lodewyk Kock of our Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology was a keynote speaker at various conferences, with the latest the 2nd World Congress on Biotechnology, in Philadelphia, USA, from 29 November to 1 December 2011. Prof. Kock was honoured for his outstanding keynote address and co-researcher Dr Chantel Swart for her outstanding oral presentation. Prof. Kock (left) receives here the award for his presentation from Dr Mukesh Verma of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the USA. |