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12 June 2024
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Story Lunga Luthuli
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Richard Molefe, a final-year BCom Investment Management and Banking
student at the University of the Free State (UFS), was recently elected uncontested as the National Chairperson of the Black Management Forum (BMF) National Student Chapter. The BMF aims to empower managerial leadership among black individuals in South Africa. Molefe's election signifies a step towards inclusive leadership structures that reflect wider societal values.
In an exclusive interview, Molefe shares his vision for youth empowerment and his plans for the Student Chapter's endeavours.
“The Black Management Forum’s programmes of development and advancement of managerial leadership and socio-economic transformation have exposed me to leadership opportunities that enhance my potential and aspirations. The opportunity is an indication that I have done something right, but I must constantly remind myself that I have not arrived,” said Molefe.
In his one-year term of office, Molefe wants to ensure that national structures of the Student Chapter exist and are functional, key pillars – promoting leadership, managerial leadership development skills, and entrepreneurial skills development in higher education institutions.
World Wide Web discussed at UFS
2006-09-08
The eighth annual congress on World Wide Web applications was attended by about 200 delegates from countries across the world on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein. The congress was presented by the UFS and the Central University of Technology. Topics like e-learning, e-business, e-governance and e-community were discussed. A direct broadcast of the keynote address, delivered by Mr Stephen Downes from the National Research Council in Canada, was done by means of a Skypecast broadcast.

From the left: Prof Teuns Verschoor (Vice-Rector: Academic Operations at the UFS), Mr Herbert Thomas (head of E-learning at the UFS) and Mr Downes.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs