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15 March 2022
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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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).
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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
School of Nursing involved with international project
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Prof. George Ellison from the University of London in the United Kingdom (UK) and Mr Marcel Kroth, a lecturer at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), visited the School of Nursing at the University of the Free State (UFS). Prof. Ellison is the principal researcher and Mr Kroth is the South African based co-ordinator of a project focusing on Evidence Informed Decision Making. This project is a partnership between the University of London, UFS School of Nursing, UJ, University of Limpopo, University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU). The British Council of Higher Education’s England-Africa Partnership scheme is funding the project.
From the left are, front: Prof. Anita van der Merwe (Head of the UFS School of Nursing) and Prof. Ellison; back: Mr Kroth and Prof. Yvonne Botma (the UFS co-ordinator of the project).
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