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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
International symposium on multilingualism and exclusion
2006-04-26
The Unit for Language Management at the University of the Free State (UFS) presented an international symposium on multilingualism and exclusion in collaboration with the Universities of Gent and Antwerp.

Some of the guests attending the symposium were from the left Prof Humphrey Tonkin (University of Hartford, United States of America), Prof Theo du Plessis (Director: Unit for Language Management at the UFS), Prof Reinhild Vanderkerckhove (University of Antwerp) and Prof Timothy Reagan (University of the Witwatersrand).