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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
Claims for damages by Charl Blom and Cobus Muller against the UFS
2015-07-03
The University of the Free State (UFS) does not normally comment in public on legal matters involving its staff or students.
However, in relation to the repeated publicity as a result of claims brought against the university and members of the senior leadership by former students Charl Blom and Cobus Muller, the following:
On the advice of legal counsel, the university plans to vigorously oppose the claims of the former students. When all the evidence is made public, the university believes that those claims will be found to be without merit.
Issued by: Lacea Loader
Director: Communication and Brand Management
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