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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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Department celebrates 35 years
2006-11-08

The Department of Communication and Information Studies at the University of the Free State (UFS) celebrates 35 years of existence this year. To commemorate this occasion, some of the staff who were involved with the Department on a permanent basis the past 35 years, got together in Bloemfontein.

Here are, from the left: back: Dr André van Deventer, Messrs Rhyno Kriek and Coenie de Villiers; middle: Prof Johann de Wet (current Head of the Department), Mrs Zarine Roodt, Prof Terry Terblanche (former head of the department), Mrs Elsabé van Aswegen, Prof Anské Grobler and Dr Gustav Puth; front: Mr GP van Rheede van Oudtshoorn

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