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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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UFS academic serves again on Financial Planning Standards Board
2010-11-08
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Adv. Wessel Oosthuizen from the Centre for Financial Planning at the University of the Free State (UFS) has been elected by the panel of directors of the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) on the FPSBs Standards Committee for the second term. This appointment is for two years, effective from 1 January 2011.
Adv. Ooshuizen will be one of six persons who shall see to it that standards already promulgated for Certified Financial Planners are maintained and improved globally. “During the coming year we shall also see to it that already existing standards are still up to date,” said Adv. Oosthuizen.
Adv. Oosthuizen will also advise the committee on the development, implementation and administration of standards for the world-wide financial-planning profession.