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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
Live streaming of Beyond the Spear Seminar tonight
2012-08-12
A reminder of tonight's Beyond the Spear Seminar. Please take note that the seminar will be streamed live via our website from 18:30.
At tonight’s seminar Prof. Jonathan Jansen will set the scene for the evening, followed by a presentation from panelists on the question: “What did we learn from the Spear and what does the event (the painting and the reactions to it) mean for our society?” This will be followed by an intra-panelist discussion and an opportunity to ask questions, comments and responses from the panel.
Panelists:
Ferial Haffajee: Editor, City Press
Nic Dawes, Editor-in-Chief, Mail & Guardian
Max du Preez: Investigative journalist and political columnist
Justice Malala: Political commentator and newspaper columnist