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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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Strike by outsourced contract workers on the Bloemfontein Campus
2016-02-21
State of our campuses #4
All academic and administrative services on the Bloemfontein Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) will continue as normal for the incoming week. The university management has invited striking outsourced contract workers back to the negotiation table and continues the work to resolve the concerns of these workers. All security arrangements remain in place to ensure that no disruption of university work takes place. Management will immediately apply the interdict should any disruptions occur.