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...
Student receives Corobrik regional award
2007-11-12
 |
|
Ms Paula Smit, a student in M.Arch. (prof.) of the Department of Architecture at the University of the Free State (UFS), was recently named regional winner of the annual Corobrik competition. The title of her thesis was: "A palmpsest of contradictions: A living museum for Sophiatown". She will be competing next year in the national Corobrik competition. This year's winner of the national competition, Mr Hendrik Auret, was a student from the UFS. Attending the award ceremony were, from the left: Mr Gary Westwood (Regional Manager of Corobrik), Ms Smit, and Prof. Jan Smit (Head of the Department of Architecture at the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
|