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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).
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
Faculty of Theology celebrates 25 years
2005-08-18
On 20 August 2005 the Faculty of Theology (UFS) will be 25 years old. In order to celebrate this a weekend of festivities which includes an academic conference, dinner and church service is planned for 19 to 21 August.
On Friday 19 August from 10:00 to13:00 a conference will be held at the DRC Kovsiekampus on the theme of the role of the church in present day South Africa. Prof Stef Coetzee (former rector UFS), Piet Strauss and Amie van Wyk (Pretoria) as well as Dr Ezekiel Moraka will be participating.
On the same day at 19:00 a prestige dinner will be held in the Centenary Complex. The weekend’s festivities will come to an end by means of a church service on Sunday 21 August at 9:30 at the DRC Universitas. Prof Hermie van Zyl, our dean, will be conducting this service.
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