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CGAS co-hosts national online think tank on Pan-Africanist futures

15 March 2022 | Story Rulanzen Martin | Photo Supplied

Dr Khabele Motlosa and Prof Molefi Kete Asante — 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 isLesotho and South Africa: a clarion call for a Pan-Africanist future.

The keynote speakers are Dr Khabele Motlosa, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at NUL, and leading Pan-Africanist scholar Prof Molefi Kete Asante.

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

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Senior management supports Bloemfontein Celtic

2005-09-10

The senior management of the University of the Free State (UFS) wore the T-shirts of Bloemfontein Celtic in a show of support for the local soccer club that has reached the final of the SAA Supa 8 competition.

The final between Bloemfontein Celtic and Gauteng-based Supersport United team will be played on Saturday 17 September 2005.

Front from left:
Ms Edma Pelzer, Director: Physical Resources and Special Projects; Prof Sakkie Steyn, Registrar: General and Mr Billyboy Ramahlele, Director: Diversity

Middle from left:
Prof Frederick Fourie, Rector and Vice-Chancellor; Dr Ezekiel Moraka, Vice-Rector: Student Affairs and Prof Magda Fourie, Vice-Rector: Academic Planning

Back from left:
Prof Teuns Verschoor, Vice-Rector: Academic Operations; Prof Niel Viljoen, Chief Director: Operations, Mr Willem Malherbe, Registrar: Strategic Planning; Prof Tienie Crous, Dean: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and Ds Kiepie Jaftha, Chief Director: Community Service

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