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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
Free State High Court sets aside the claim of former students Muller and Blom against the UFS and its leaders
2016-02-03
Former students of the University of the Free State (UFS) Cobus Muller and Charl Blom lost both claims made against the institution and a punitive cost order was made against them.
This comes after a letter of demand was issued to the UFS on 5 March 2015 in which Muller and Blom claimed R5 150 000 each in compensation from the university. The first claim for contractual damages was withdrawn without explanation in December 2015 and the full wasted costs were tendered. Subsequently a claim for defamation of character was also set aside by Free State High Court. The Court further ordered the two former students to pay punitive damages.
The UFS leadership is satisfied that justice was served and regards the decision of the High Court as final.