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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
Inaugural King Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture
2006-05-25
Inaugural King Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture (Pdf format)
After the lecture a blue Basotho blanket was handed to Prof Njabulo Ndebele, (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town) by Prof Frederick Fourie (Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS).
Photo: Dries Myburgh
Some of the guests attending the lecture were from the left: Judge Faan Hancke (Chairperson of the UFS Council), Prof Njabulo Ndebele (internationally renowned writer, academic and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town), Prof Frederick Fourie (Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS) and Mr Mosiuoa Lekota (Minister of Defence). Mr Lekota delivered a message of support for the UFS Moshoeshoe Project.
Photo: Dries Myburgh