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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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Student in Architecture wins two prizes for her Master's Degree studies
2009-11-27
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Tascha de Lange, an M.Arch (Prof) student at the University of the Free State (UFS) recently received two coveted awards for her studies. She received the Corobrik Regional Prize for the Best Student in the M.Arch (Prof.) programme, as well as the award for the best M.Arch (Prof.) student of the UFS’s Department of Architecture. Tascha will be participating in the National Corobrik Architecture Student of the Year Competition in March 2010.
Here she is with, to the left: Prof. Pattabi Raman, from the Department of Architecture at the UFS; Mr Gary Westwood, Area Manager of Corobrik; Prof. Jan Smit, Head of the Department of Architecture at the UFS and Mr Jan Ras, also from the Department of Architecture at the UFS. Earlier this year, a former student of the Department, Wim Steenkamp, was named National Corobrik Architecture Student of the Year 2008.
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