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15 March 2022
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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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).
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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
Student receives Corobrik regional award
2007-11-12
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Ms Paula Smit, a student in M.Arch. (prof.) of the Department of Architecture at the University of the Free State (UFS), was recently named regional winner of the annual Corobrik competition. The title of her thesis was: "A palmpsest of contradictions: A living museum for Sophiatown". She will be competing next year in the national Corobrik competition. This year's winner of the national competition, Mr Hendrik Auret, was a student from the UFS. Attending the award ceremony were, from the left: Mr Gary Westwood (Regional Manager of Corobrik), Ms Smit, and Prof. Jan Smit (Head of the Department of Architecture at the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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