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The University of the Free State’s green project aims to curb environmental impact of concrete by using industrial waste and by-products. (Photo by Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Using ‘rubbish’ instead of stone makes concrete greener

The University of the Free State’s green project aims to curb environmental impact of concrete by using industrial waste and by-products

Lessons: The orature of Zulu poet DBZ Ntuli helped researchers collate oral environmental knowledge. (Universal History Archive/Getty)

Decolonising environmentalism and climate change

Indigenous oral cultures are teaching researchers that precolonial South Africans were aware of conservation

One in every five girls across sub-Saharan Africa has experienced rape or sexual assault before turning 18 . Photo: File

We don’t need more reports about oppression, we need action

By looking at the past and understanding how racism and gender-based violence has lined the hallways of educational institutions, we can learn new ways of being

The way international students in the present crisis are treated may determine whether South Africa will be able to retain its prominent position as a preferred educational destination, and whether it will be a driver for PhD capacity development in Africa. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

International students need equal care

Contradictory pandemic regulations could to be putting critical training in jeopardy

Universities have taken steps such as deactivating their biometric systems to combat the spread of coronavirus.

How South African universities are preparing for coronavirus

UP has temporarily disabled its biometric access systems, and several other institutions have established task teams ready to leap into action when Covid-19 hits their campuses

Onwards and upwards: Gerda Steyn has been running professionally for only five years, but she won the Comrades Marathon in 2019. This year, her sights are set on the Olympic marathon. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Gerda Steyn: From the Comrades to the Olympics

The runner smashed her personal best in 2019, and will feel confident going to Tokyo in August

Linked: Telkom boss Sipho Maseko introduced Bain’s Vittorio Massone to Jacob Zuma. The telecom’s subsidiary, Business Connexion, is in financial trouble after Bain assisted it. (Moeletsi Mabe/Sunday Times/Gallo)
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​UFS celebrates excellence through its research hubs

The UFS now has 156 NRF-rated researchers and five Sarchi Research Chairs

‘The truth of the matter is this: inanimate objects have power — to define

This is why Steyn must fall

Marthinus Steyn’s statue inflicts violence at the University of the Free State’s campus

Forthright Jansen has drawn both admirers and detractors

The rector of the University of the Free State has been proactive and vocal about promoting racial understanding.

Protesting students at the University of Free State clash with supporters of the university’s rugby team on the field on Monday night.

Political parties condemn university violence

The ANC, DA and EFF have spoken out against the escalating violence and apparent deterioration of race relations across SA’s universities.

The University of Free State rugby pitch.
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University of Free State suspends lectures after Varsity Cup violence

All academic activity has been suspended at the university following clashes between rugby supporters and protesters.

Gauteng schools feel the pressure to place more than 700 000 primary and secondary school pupils.

Young Communist League condemns UFS racism attack

The Young Communist League of SA has called on the University of the Free State to confront the reality of racism at UFS and expel all racists.

Enhancing the Bloem skyline

Naval Hill is an iconic destination for locals and visitors to the Mangaung metropolitan municipality and it attracts thousands visitors.

Seven people have been arrested in connection with an alleged right wing plot to bomb a tent at the ANC’s electoral conference in Mangaung.

ANC beefs up security ahead of conference

Security at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, where the ANC is holding its national conference, has been beefed-up.

Jansen: Employers dismayed by graduates’ lack of basic skills

Jansen: Employers dismayed by graduates’ lack of basic skills

UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen says students are graduating from weaker universities with the same lack of basic skills as when they left school.

UFS students face off over SRC election

All 20 members of the UFS’s SRC now face high court action from a student unionist who argues that their election violates the SA Constitution.

University of Free State inaugurates party-free SRC

University of Free State inaugurates party-free SRC

The University of the Free State has inaugurated its new student representative council after its first non-political-party elections, held this week.

Sasco vows new court action on ‘undemocratic’ UFS elections

Sasco vows new court action on ‘undemocratic’ UFS elections

In its continuing battle with the University of Free State, Sasco will ask a judge to declare student council elections "undemocratic".

Sasco vows new court action on ‘undemocratic’ UFS elections

Sixty arrested in UFS campus protest

Sixty people have been arrested at an illegal protest against UFS rector Jonathan Jansen for banning political campaigning by SRC candidates.

Sasco vows new court action on ‘undemocratic’ UFS elections

Students protest Jansen’s crackdown on UFS politics

Students furious over rector Jonathan Jansen’s changes to student politics have staged a protest at the University of Free State.