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Prof Louise Cilliers wins the 2024 UJ Translation Prize |
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| 2024-09-24 |
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| 2024-09-19 |
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| 2024-09-18 |
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| 2024-09-17 |
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| 2024-09-17 |
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| 2024-09-17 |
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| 2024-09-17 |
UFS Alumna Miné Kleynhans wins SASOL New Signatures Art Competition |
| 2024-09-16 |
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| 2024-09-16 |
UFS postdoctoral fellow hopes participation at international conferences will create research networks |
| 2024-09-16 |
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| 2024-09-16 |
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| 2024-09-13 |
Notice regarding the nomination and election of two (2) representatives of the Convocation to the University of the Free State (UFS) Council |
| 2024-09-13 |
Notice regarding the nomination and election of two (2) representatives of the Convocation to the University of the Free State (UFS) Council |
| 2024-09-13 |
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| 2024-09-13 |
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| 2024-09-13 |
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| 2024-09-12 |
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| 2024-09-12 |
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| 2024-09-12 |
Office for International Affairs attends the 26th annual IEASA Conference |
| 2024-09-12 |
Office for International Affairs attends the 26th annual IEASA Conference |
| 2024-09-11 |
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| 2024-09-11 |
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| 2024-09-11 |
Conversing on social justice: a West College initiative |
| 2024-09-11 |
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| 2024-09-11 |
Vice-Chancellor's Concert 2024: an evening of music, talent, and farewells |
| 2024-09-11 |
Vice-Chancellor's Concert 2024: an evening of music, talent, and farewells |
| 2024-09-11 |
Green Solutions: The Panacea to Global Disease Burden, Prof Anofi Ashafa's inaugural lecture |
| 2024-09-11 |
Green Solutions: The Panacea to Global Disease Burden, Prof Anofi Ashafa's inaugural lecture |
| 2024-09-10 |
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| 2024-09-09 |
UFS sets new benchmark with successful 2024/2025 CSRC elections |
| 2024-09-09 |
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| 2024-09-09 |
Southern African Mountain Conference 2025 returns to UFS |
| 2024-09-09 |
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| 2024-09-06 |
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| 2024-09-06 |
Louzanne Coetzee wins bronze in record-breaking Paralympic 1 500 m T11 race |
| 2024-09-05 |
#DeafAwarenessMonth: Advocating for quality education for deaf children |
| 2024-09-05 |
#DeafAwarenessMonth: Advocating for quality education for deaf children |
| 2024-09-04 |
Prof Jeremy Smith at his inaugural lecture: ‘Being Finished is Finished’ |
| 2024-09-04 |
Prof Jeremy Smith at his inaugural lecture: ‘Being Finished is Finished’ |
| 2024-09-03 |
Head of International Scholarships selected for prestigious US International Visitor Leadership Programme |
| 2024-09-03 |
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Mathatha Tsedu to deliver King Moshoeshoe lecture
2009-06-29
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| Mathatha Tsedu |
The former Editor of City Press, Mathatha Tsedu, will deliver the Second King Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein on Wednesday, 9 September 2009.
The King Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture series are an initiative of the University of the Free State to honour the leadership legacy of King Moshoeshoe I, founder of the Basotho nation. The lecture series aim to provide a platform for debate about the key challenges of nation-building, reconciliation and leadership facing our country and the African continent.
In 2004 the UFS produced a documentary on the life of King Moshoeshoe I as part of the project to pay tribute to this great African leader. The documentary was screened numerous times on SABC TV.
Later in 2006, the inaugural King Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture was delivered by Prof Njabulo Ndebele, former vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town.
Mr Tsedu is one of South Africa’s foremost journalists and social commentators. He will speak on the topic, “When globalisation ties the fate of the Maluti to that of the ice caps on the Alps, what does Morena Moshoeshoe teach us about leadership today?”
Mr Tsedu has received several awards, including the Nat Nakasa Award for Courageous Journalism in 2000 as well as the Shanduka Lifetime Achievers Award in 2007.
A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, he started his career in journalism as a bureau reporter for the Sowetan in 1978 responsible for the then Northern Transvaal. Later Mr Tsedu became Political Editor of the Sowetan, the Deputy Editor of The Star as well as the Deputy Editor of the Sunday Independent and Deputy Chief Executive of SABC News.
He has also been the Editor of two major Sunday newspapers, the Sunday Times and City Press and is currently the Head of the Journalism Academy at the Media24 group.
Mr Tsedu is the Chairperson of The African Editors Forum and a Council Member of the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF). He has addressed various organisations on journalism in South Africa, including the International Federation of Journalists; the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; the Botswana Journalist Association; the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists; the Kenya Union of Journalists; and the Union of African Journalists.
He was an active trade unionist and national executive member of the Media Workers’ Association of South Africa. He was detained several times, banned and restricted to Seshego in the Northern Province from 1981 to 1986.
Mr Tsedu is also a short story writer with several of his stories published in various magazines. He was awarded a prestigious Nieman Fellowship in 1996/97 to study at Harvard University in the United States of America.
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29 June 2009 |