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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
Annual Theological day
2006-02-17
The annual Theological day of the University of the Free State's (UFS) Faculty of Theology took place recently. The subject, Does the Bible still provide moral guidance about issues such as homosexuality?, drew wide interest.
Some of the speakers included from the left Prof Francois Tolmie (Head: Department New Testament at the UFS), Prof Hermie van Zyl (Dean: Faculty of Theology at the UFS), Dr Fanus Erasmus (Chairperson: Curatory of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Free State), Prof Ettiene De Villiers (Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics at the University of Pretoria) and Dr Marius Terblanche (senior lecturer from the UFS Department of Old Testament).