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The Faculty of the Humanities Centre for Gender and Africa Affairs, in collaboration with the Department of Science and Innovation, Academy of Science of South Africa, and the Edith Cowan University, will be hosting a Visiting Scholar Lecture with Prof Loretta Baldassar titled: Transnational Family Care: from social death to digital kinning over a century of Australian Migration.
Staff and students are encouraged to attend. The details are as follows:
Date: 18 March 2023
Venue: Council Chambers, George du Toit Building
Time: 15:00
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Please contact Portia Gailele at gailelepb@ufs.ac.za to RSVP to this event.
DiMTEC learns from local media
2006-02-15
Senior newspaper and radio journalists in Bloemfontein were invited by the University of the Free State's (UFS) Disaster Risk Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (DiMTEC) to share their experiences with postgraduate students. DiMTEC is part of the UFS Department of Agricultural Economics and offers the only postgraduate qualification in Disaster Management in South Africa. One of the modules of the course is Management of Media Relations.
Back from the left: Ms Danél Blaauw (senior journalist from Volksblad) and Ms Lydie Terblanche (coordinator of the DiMTEC Management of Media Relations course).
Front from the left: Some of the students attending the course are Mr Simo Hopa (from the City of Cape Town), Mr Moses Hlatswayo (from the Police Service in Swaziland) and Mr Gift Chatora (from the Red Cross in Zimbabwe).