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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.

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Programme in Language Practice presents lectures
2008-02-04

 

The University of the Free State's (UFS) Programme in Language Practice recently presented two lectures on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. Prof. Luc van Doorslaer from the Lessius Hogeschool in Antwerpen, Belgium presented a lecture entitled: "Translation and the media: A not so obvious research combination", and Prof. Terrence Wiley from the Arizona State University in the United States of America presented a lecture on "Language rights in the USA: The role of the community in language preservation". Here are, from the left: Prof. Doorslaer, Prof. Jackie Naudé (Departmental Chairperson of the UFS Department of Afroasiatic Studies, Sign Language and Language Practice), Prof. Wiley, and Prof. Theo du Plessis (Head of the Unit for Language Management at the UFS).
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