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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 handed a cum laude award to Judge
2006-06-24
The Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS) handed a cum laude award to Judge Joos Hefer for being the first judge in the history of the South African Academy for Science and Arts who received the Toon van den Heever prize for the science of law. Judge Hefer is also the first former lecturer and alumnus of the Faculty to receive this prestigious prize.
Prof Johan Henning (Dean: Faculty of Law at the UFS) during the handing over of the cum laude award to Judge Hefer.