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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.
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).