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16 May 2022
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Story Lacea Loader
The academic programme on the Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) will mostly continue online for this week, and students will be informed by their faculties about the revised schedule as well as arrangements regarding tests and assessments scheduled for this week on the campus.
This decision came after about 100 students blocked the entrance to the campus on the morning of 16 May 2022 and were dispersed by members of the South African Police Service (SAPS). This was followed by the stoning of some of the staff cottages from outside the periphery fence as the police again dispersed students. The students’ action was preceded by a night vigil at the main gate of the campus on 15 May 2022 by a group of about 200 students demanding that private accommodation payments be made to them and not to their chosen landlords.
The university management condemns today’s destructive behaviour by the students in the strongest terms – especially after the campus experienced violent protest action and arson this year, which affected the academic programme negatively.
The campus remains open; the university's Protection Services is on high alert and is closely monitoring the situation on campus in cooperation with the SAPS.
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Lacea Loader (Director: Communication and Marketing)
Telephone: +27 51 401 2584 | +27 83 645 2454
Email: news@ufs.ac.za | loaderl@ufs.ac.za
UFS staff makes a difference
2010-05-04
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From the left are: Ms Annemarie Ludick, Senior Officer at the UFS; Mr Gerald and Mrs Luchelle Blaauw of the Ebenhauser Intermediary School in Wepener; and Mr Philemon Bitso, Assistant Officer: Corporate Relations at the UFS.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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A group of staff members at the University of the Free State (UFS) made a donation to Mr Gerald Blaauw and his wife, Luchelle, both teachers at the Ebenhauser Intermediary School in Wepener, in reaction to an article that appeared in Volksblad’s Kontrei of 28 April 2010.
The money will be used to buy a stove and pots to prepare food for the 646 learners in this school.
When Mrs Blaauw, who has been at the school for ten years now, got involved in the school’s feeding scheme, she noticed a great need for food amongst the learners. It motivated her to start a vegetable garden. With spinach, cabbage, beetroot, beans, peas and carrots in the garden but no stove or pots to cook the vegetables, Mrs Blaauw was very happy when she learned about the donation from the UFS.
Mrs Blaauw has plans to expand the garden. “We would like to daily give the children a plate of food at 10:00 and a cup of soup again in the afternoon,” she said.
Mr Mickey Gordon, Head: Corporate Relations, Institutional Advancement and Sport at the UFS, said: “It is remarkable that a teacher will go to so much effort for the children. This school is part of our Free State community and we like to help.” |