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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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UFS congratulates doctorandi
2007-04-27

The University of the Free State (UFS) awarded 32 doctorate degrees during this week's autumn graduation ceremony. Among the guests attending the chancellor's dinner, where the doctorandi's were congratulated, were, from the left: Prof. Hendrik Swart (Departmental Chairperson of the UFS Department of Physics and promoter of Dr Rochelle Conradie), Dr Conradie (Ph.D. in Physics), Dr Moagi Letso (Ph.D. in Animal Science), Prof. HO de Waal (from the UFS Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences and promoter of Dr Moagi), Dr Patrick Nonjola (Ph.D. in Chemistry) and Prof. Jannie Swarts (from the UFS Department of Chemistry and promoter of Dr Nonjola).
Photo: Stephen Collett
 

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