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18 March 2024
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Story VALENTINO NDABA
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Mark your calendar: The Faculty of Law's Human Rights celebration is approaching!
In commemoration of Human Rights Day, the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS) is marking the occasion with a series of special events. These include a panel discussion titled Contribution of Sir Kentridge to Human Rights in South Africa and Beyond, and a public lecture titled Thirty Years of Human Rights in South Africa? Any Reason to Celebrate? – delivered by Emeritus Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs, promising a day of profound reflection and insight.
Date: 18 March 2024
Time: 10:00
Venue: Albert Wessels Auditorium, Bloemfontein Campus
Join us for an insightful panel discussion on the Contribution of Sir Kentridge to Human Rights in South Africa and Beyond. Panellists will include esteemed retired Constitutional Court judges. After the panel discussion, we will gather for a luncheon.
Don't miss the afternoon’s thought-provoking public lecture by Emeritus Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs.
Click here for the programme.
Well-known political commentator presents lecture at UFS
2009-10-12
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Prof. André Duvenhage, a political scientist and well-known political commentator from the University of North-West, recently presented a lecture at the University of the Free State on current South African political affairs and the road ahead. He talked about “A strategic scenario-orientated analysis of the South African political environment in the next five years (2009-2014)”. Prof. Duvenhage is a keen student of South African politics and a regular commentator on radio and television on current political developments in the country. The lecture was jointly organised by the Department of Political Science and the Programme for Governance and Political Transformation in the Faculty of the Humanities. At the lecture were, from the left: Prof. Theo Neethling (Chairperson: Department of Political Science), Dr. Tania Coetzee (Director: Programme of Governance and Political Transformation) and Prof. Duvenhage.
Photo: Mangaliso Radebe |