Latest News Archive
Please select Category, Year, and then Month to display items
15 March 2022
|
Story Rulanzen Martin
|
Photo Supplied
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
Conference on trafficking in human beings presented at the UFS
2007-08-20
 |
|
A conference on national and international perspectives on trafficking in human beings was presented by the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS) on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein today. Topics such as an international perspective and the role of organised crime in trafficking, identifying and assisting victims of trafficking and the role of witness protection in trafficking prosecutions were discussed. At the conference were, from the left, front: Mr Dawood Adams (South African Witness Protection Programme), Ms Judith Mthomben (Terre Des Homes, Pretoria); back: Ms Beatri Kruger (senior lecturer, Department of Criminal and Medical Law at the UFS), and Ms Susan Kreston (Unit for Children’s Rights in the Faculty of Law at the UFS).
Foto: Leonie Bolleurs
|