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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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Agricultural centre holds first auction for the year
2008-01-22
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The University of the Free State's (UFS) Lengau Agricultural Development Centre presented its first auction for this year. About 500 sheep and 320 cattle were auctioned. The auction, which was handled by BKB, is a service that the UFS is rendering to commercial as well as emerging farmers and will in future be presented monthly. At the auction were, from the left: Prof. Herman van Schalkwyk (Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the UFS), Mr Dawid Botha (Manager at BKBLouwid), Mr Wynand Boshoff (seller of livestock), and Dr Léan van der Westhuizen (Head of the Lengau Agri Development Centre at the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs |