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14 October 2025
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Story Lacea Loader
In the interest of the safety of the staff and students at the University of the Free State (UFS), the Executive Management assessed the current situation on the three campuses and made the following resolutions:
1. The Qwaqwa Campus is closed with immediate effect, and students are requested to leave the campus within the next 24 hours.
2. The Executive Management Committee extends an invitation to the Student Representative Councils (SRCs) of all three campuses to further engagement.
3. On the Bloemfontein and South Campuses, all lectures are suspended until further notice; however, only limited movement will be allowed on campus from 19:00 in the evening until 07:00 in the morning.
Reach-out project for victims of crime
2005-10-07
The Faculty of Theology at the University of the Free State (UFS) and other subject fields such as law, criminology and psychology recently launched a reach-out project in cooperation with the Dutch Reformed Church Uitsig for victims of crime. A workshop was presented to create an awareness of victims of crime amongst the congregation and members of the community.
Some of the UFS staff who presented the workshop were from the front left Ms Herma Foster (lecturer at the UFS Department of Criminology) and Advocate Beatri Kruger (lecturer at the UFS Department of Criminal and Medical Law)
Back left: Dr Dawid Kuyler (lecturer at the UFS Department of Practical Theology) and Mr Jacques Jordaan (Psychologist from Global Solutions Limited).
Lacea Loader
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