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08 April 2020
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Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
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The international response to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a health security threat stimulated an international response that commenced with drastic, but localised actions in China, but responses rapidly manifested in more extreme measures in the rest of the world. Amidst international efforts imposing extraordinary national and international movement restrictions and a rush to find a medical cure, two questions arise. First, how does COVID-19 as a health security threat feature within the global security debate and second, how to explain the harsh responses that one observes.
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Odeion: Odeion Sinfonia, 23 October
2008-09-15
Odeion Sinfonia
23 October,
Odeion
19:30
Programme
- Albinoni: Adagio with organ (organist, Jan Beukes).
- Haydn: Cello concerto in D major (cellist: JC Jacobs)
- Bruch: Concerto for string orchestra.
It is the recently redescovered Bruch Concerto's premier performance in South Africa. It is a wonderful work completed in the year of his death in 1920.
JC Jacobs is a young Bloemfontein student recently returned from an extensive study period in Chicago,USA.
It will be his first performance as soloist with the Odeon Sinfonia since his return.