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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
Patenting handbook launched at the UFS
2008-03-20
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The Innovation Fund's (IF) patenting handbook was recently launched at the University of the Free State (UFS). The launch of "The State of Patenting in South Africa" was attended by UFS and Central University of Technology (CUT) staff, including the UFS management. The IF team, led by Dr Eugene Lettering and Mr McLean Sibanda, shared some of the interesting findings they have come across while doing research for the handbook. At the launch were, from the left: Prof. Frans Swanepoel (Director: Research Development at the UFS), Mr Sibanda (Innovation Fund), Prof. Teuns Verschoor (Vice Rector: Academic Operations at the UFS), and Ms Dineo Gaofhiwe (Research Development Directorate, UFS).
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