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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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Jacob Zuma delivers JN Boshoff Memorial Lecture at the UFS
2007-09-07

 

The Department of Public Management at the University of the Free State (UFS) presented the annual JN Boshoff Memorial Lecture last night on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. The lecture, titled 'Reconciliation and Nation-building' was delivered by Mr Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of the ANC. Attending the lecture were, from the left, front: Prof. Hendri Kroukamp (Programme Director: Public Management at the UFS), Mr Zuma, Prof. Moses Sindane (Head of the Department of Public Management at the UFS); back: Prof. Koos Bekker (Project Manager for the Local Governance Unit at the Department of Public Management), Mr Lyndon du Plessis (Lecturer at the UFS Department of Public Management) and Dr Liezel Lues (Senior Lecturer at the UFS Department of Public Management).
Photo: Stephen Collett

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