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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
Research team wins National Innovation fund prize
2008-05-07
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A research team from the Department of Microbial, Biochemichal and Food Boitechnology at the University of the Free State (UFS) has won the prize for the best exhibition at the recent finals of the National Innovation Fund competition in Stellenbosch. The same team had previously won the UFS leg of the Innovation Fund. The exhibition was attended by the Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Mosibudi Mangena. At the prize giving ceremony were, from the left: Dr Eugene Lottering (Executive Director: Innovation Fund), Ms. Kasweka Kakoma, Ms. Jay Lee, Mr Lehlohonolo Mathengtheng (all from the Veterinary Biotechnology team), and Mr Mangena (Minister of Science and Technology).
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