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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
Simposia on Sentencing - 14 March 2008
2008-03-07
The Centre for Juridical Excellence of the Faculty of Law, University of the Free State (UFS) is hosting a simposia on 14 March 2008 on sentencing in South African criminal courts in the Senate Hall, CR Swart Building on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein.
Two guest speakers from the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, USA will speak on sentencing issues pertaining to speciality courts as well as diversion programmes. The Hon Judge of Appeal Brand and the Hon Judge Yekiso will also address the audience on sentencing issues.
The simposia is open to the public free of charge and bookings can be made at (051) 401 2698 or 401 9181 (office hours) or 051 444 5013 (fax no). Translation services will be available.
Contact: Prof Elizabeth Snyman-Van Deventer (051 401 2268).
Please confirm your attendance by Thursday, 13 March 2008.