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...
UFS poets work included in album
2006-06-23
The poems of three of the University of the Free State's (UFS) word artists have been included in the album Honderd jaar later. The album is published as a celebration of “Winternag” by Eugène N Marais on 23 June 1905. “Winternag” is regarded as the first Afrikaans poem. More than 1 000 poems have been submitted for inclusion in this memorial album, of which only 50 are published. Poems of Marais and of those included in the album will be performed in the show Eugene Marais klink 100 jaar later by Carel Trichardt en Petru Wessels in July during the Volksblad-kunstefees, presented on the UFS campus.
The UFS poets are from the left Proff Dave Lubbe from the Centre of Accounting, Bernard Odendaal and Hennie van Coller, both from the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French. Photo: Leonie Bolleurs