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UFS to present DF Malherbe Memorial Lecture in celebration of 100 years of Afrikaans

24 April 2025 | Story Lunga Luthuli and Lacea Loader

The University of the Free State (UFS) will present the DF Malherbe Memorial Lecture on Thursday 15 May 2025 in celebration of 100 years of Afrikaans as an official language in South Africa. The lecture forms part of the national dialogue on Afrikaans as an official language – the celebration of which will be held on 8 May 2025.

The lecture will be a showcase of Afrikaans in its rich diversity and will provide an opportunity for a sincere dialectical reflection on the history of the language and its achievements.

The keynote speaker is Prof Joan Hambidge, the rejoinder is delivered by Prof Hein Willemse, and entertainment is provided by musician Frazer Barry, the UFS Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, and the Odeion String Quartet.

Prof Joan Hambidge is a well-known literary scholar, award-winning and prolific poet, distinguished academic and critic, and controversial public figure – known for her iconoclastic approach to Afrikaans literary traditions.

Prof Hein Willemse is an academic, literary critic, activist, and author, former head of the Department of Afrikaans at the University of Pretoria who has, among many achievements, co-authored the publication The Arabic Afrikaans Writing Tradition.

Frazer Barry is the front man of the klipkoprock band Tribal Echo, who plays several traditional instruments such as the blikkitaar, teaspoons or seebamboes, and whose highly acclaimed music is informed by his extensive research into the language and culture of his Khoi ancestry.

The DF Malherbe Memorial Lecture originated at the UFS as a way of expediently supporting the arts, as well as the academe. DF Malherbe was the first professor of Afrikaans in South Africa; beyond his literary career, he was also Rector of the UFS from 1929 to 1934 (and again in 1941).

The memorial lecture will be presented on 15 May 2025 at 17:30 in the Economic and Management Sciences Auditorium on the Bloemfontein Campus.

The presentation of the memorial lecture is coordinated by the UFS Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French.

For more information: https://ufsweb.co/dfmml25

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UFS presents unique rally

2005-06-07

On Friday 10 June 2005, the University of the Free State (UFS) will present the Kovsie version of the Amazing Race in Bloemfontein.

The Amazing Rainbow Rally will be held in aid of children and babies with serious diseases in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

By raising the necessary funds, equipment can be acquired to meet the unique health care needs of these special patients. It will also enable the UFS to maintain the high standards of education, training and research in this field.

The Amazing Rainbow Rally will give some residents of Bloemfontein an opportunity to test their knowledge of the city, as well as their time management skills, communication skills, team work and even their relationships!

About 12 corporate teams from among others Vodacom, Eskom, Medi-Clinic, Mimosa Mall and Nedbank and four university teams must follow a specific route with various checkpoints by car. Here they will have to complete activities or solve clues before receiving their clue to the next checkpoint. Teams will be traveling with cars branded with the logo of the company they represent.

The rally will start at 09:00 at the Rooiplein of the UFS and will again end on the campus where they will complete the last task. The first team to complete this task is the winner of Bloemfontein’s first Amazing Rainbow Rally.

OFM’s breakfast team will do live crossings on the day to reveal how teams are doing.

The Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at the UFS serves children with special needs, in other words children who need intensive care, or who suffer from cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and conditions, endocrinological diseases or gastro-enterological conditions.

The Department provides secondary health care to more than 250 000 children in the southern parts of the Free State, but is responsible for the tertiary care of about a million children in the Free State and Northern Cape, as well as some parts of the North-West province, the Eastern Cape and Lesotho. The intensive care units at Universitas and Pelonomi Hospitals serve approximately 1 300 neonatal and 350 intensive care patients annually. The pediatric cardiology unit admits almost 300 high care heart patients per year. Approximately 13 000 out-patients visit these two hospitals every year.

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Issued by:  Lacea Loader
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   Cell: 083 645 2454
   E-mail: loaderl.stg@mail.uovs.ac.za

7 June 2005

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