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14 October 2025
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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.
Programme for Governance and Political Transformation
2006-01-25
The Programme for Governance and Political Transformation, presented by the Department of Political Science at the University of the Free State (UFS), commenced this week. The opening address was delivered by Mr Caska Mokitlane, MEC for Agriculture in the Free State.

From the left: Prof Gerhardt de Klerk (Dean: Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS), Prof André Duvenhage (Programme Director of the Programme for Governance and Political Transformation and associated to the UFS Department Political Science), Mr Mokitlane, Dr Tania Coetzee (lecturer in the Programme for Governance and Political Transformation) and Mr Solomon Mathibela (student in the Programme for Governance and Political Transformation).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs