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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).
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
Two UFS academics appointed on the Land Bank Board
2008-03-26
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Prof. Herman van Schalkwyk (left), Dean: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of the Free State (UFS), and Mr Theo Potgieter from the UFS School of Management have recently been appointed on the Land Bank Board. Prof. van Schalkwyk is appointed as director and deputy chairperson and Mr Potgieter as director of the Board. The appointments were made by the Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs, Ms Lulu Xingwana, and is effective for a period of four years.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs |