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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
Quantity Surveyors’ Association honours Kovsie
2012-04-13
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Prof. Basie Verster and Ms Farzana Samuel.
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13 April 2012
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Farzana Samuel has been named by the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS) as this the most outstanding student this year. She received a gold medal. Farzana completed her honours degree in Quantity Surveying in 2010.
Prof. Basie Verster, Head of the Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction, said the department is very pleased with Farzana’s outstanding performance. She is the 17th Kovsie student, and the sixth female Kovsie, who has received this honour since 1970.
“This is good news for the university, which is proof that high standards are part of what we strive for,” said Prof. Verster.