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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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Dr Choice Makhetha re-elected as president of SAASSAP
2010-10-27
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Dr Choice Makhetha, the Special Assistant to the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS), was recently re-elected as the president of the South African Association of Student Affairs Practitioners (SAASSAP). Dr Makhetha served as president of this association for the period 2008-2010.
At the national conference held at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, she was unanimously re-elected as president for 2010-2012.