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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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Sisters receive the same degree
2008-04-16
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Two sisters, Ms Elsabi Bezuidenhoudt and Ms Isabel Human, both received their master's degree in Governance and Political Transformation during this week's autumn graduation ceremony of the University of the Free State (UFS). Dr Tania Coetzee, Director of the programme Governance and Political Transformation, was the study leader to both. The subject of Ms Bezuidenhoudt’s thesis was “Apartheid and political transformation as ideologies: Differences and similarities”. Ms Human’s thesis was titled “The role of labour unions in a transformational tertiary environment: A critical analysis of the University of the Free State”. Both of them are working at the UFS. Ms Bezuidenhoudt works at the division Meeting Administration and Ms Human works at the Department Zoology and Entomology.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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