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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
Students to Norway and Hungary for research agreement
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Students from the University of the Free State's (UFS) Department of
Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology will visit Norway and Hungary for three weeks as part of the SA/Norway and SA/Hungary research agreement on indigenous foods in Africa. The project aims to isolate starter cultures from indigenous fermented products with the intention to commercialise these cultures.
From left:
Ms Francisca Cohen, Ph D student in Microbiology; Ms Samantha van Hirtum, M Sc student in Microbiology; Prof Bennie Viljoen, research guide and lecturer at the UFS Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology; Ms Keba Pudumo, Honours student in Microbiology and Ms Chantal Smith, Honours student in Microbiology.