Latest News Archive
Please select Category, Year, and then Month to display items
08 April 2020
|
Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
![]()
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.
Read more...
Staff receive award for best paper
2009-01-23
 |
Two staff members from the Department of Business Management at the University of the Free State (UFS), Prof. Van Aard Smit and Ms Liezel Kotzé, recently received an award for the best paper delivered during the 6th International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Poverty Alleviation that was presented in Maputo, Mozambique. The paper was entitled ""Poverty alleviation through agri-businesses: The impact of customer/shareholder satisfaction".
Photo: Supplied |