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14 October 2022
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Story Edzani Nephalela
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Photo UFS Photo Archive
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On 20 October 2022, the University of the Free State (UFS) Faculty of Theology and Religion will present the distinguished Tutu-Jonker lecture in honour of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prof Willie Jonker. These two theologians are well-known in South Africa for their emphasis on reconciliation, and the series of lectures is a tribute to their reconciliatory efforts.
This will be the first in-person Tutu-Jonker lecture since COVID-19 and the passing of Archbishop Tutu. The keynote speaker, Dr Lazarus Mokobake, Chaplain in the South African Defence Force, will deliver the lecture, themed: ‘Faltering resilience – a nation in need of conciliation’.
Registrations close on 14 October 2022.
Geography Journal a first
2006-10-09
The Department of Geography at the University of the Free State launched a special edition of the South African Geography Journal, titled A Geography of the Free State. It is the first time in the history of the Society of South African geographers that a special issue of the journal, devoted to the geography of a single province has been published. Some of the guests who attended the launch were, from the left: Prof Gustav Visser (lecturer at the Department of Geography and co-author of the special edition of the journal), Prof Teuns Verschoor (Vice-Rector: Academic Operations at the UFS), Prof Peter Holmes (Head: Department of Geography and co-author of the special edition of the journal) and Prof Herman van Schalkwyk (Dean: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs.