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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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Seven UFS academics at SAAPS conference
2010-09-16
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The bi-annual conference of the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) was recently hosted by Stellenbosch University. Seven staff members from the University of the Free State’s (UFS) Department of Political Science, the Centre for Africa Studies, and the Programme for Governance and Political Transformation attended the conference and contributed four papers to the programme. Here are Prof. Theo Neethling (left) and Dr Tania Coetzee (middle), both from the UFS, enjoying the company of two colleagues from the University of Johannesburg.
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