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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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Student excels in martial arts
2007-05-17
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Me. Liza Coetzee, 'n Ph.D.-student aan die Departement Fisika van die Universiteit van die Vrystaat (UV), het tydens die onlangse Suid-Afrikaanse Krygkunskampioenskappe wat in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga plaasgevind het vier goue en een silwer trofeë verower. Sy is ook aangewys as die beste senior damestudent by die byeenkoms. Me. Coetzee is die afrigter van die White Tigers Combat Tang Soo Do-klub in Bloemfontein. Die span het 36 trofeë op die nasionale kampioenskappe verower. Agt van haar studente is gekies vir die Nasionale en Presidentsontwikkelingspanne wat Suid-Afrika se titel as huidige wêreldkampioen later vanjaar in Nederland gaan verdedig. Hier is me. Coetzee saam met Grand Master Jeong Seong Kim van Suid-Korea.
Foto: Verskaf
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