The University of the Free State will be conferring five honorary doctorates on a group of distinguished individuals during the April 2022 graduation ceremony.
The UFS returned to in-person ceremonies for the April 2022 graduation on the Bloemfontein and Qwaqwa campuses for the first time in two years.
Amongst the honorary doctorate recipients is former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke.
The other recipients are Prof Mike Wingfield (serving as adviser to the Executive of the University of Pretoria and conducting research in both South Africa and globally), Justice Albie Sachs (former justice in the Constitutional Court of South Africa), Judge Dennis Davis (former Judge President at the Competition Appeal Court) and Ms Winnie Byanyima (Executive Director of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS [UNAIDS] and a Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations).
“Each one of these recipients has made a profound contribution to their respective fields, and we are privileged to welcome them on campus to honour them during the graduation ceremony,” said Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor.
In addition, the Chancellor’s Medal will be awarded to Dr Nicholas Pearce, Head of the Department of Surgery at the UFS, and the Council Medal will be awarded to Mr Nico Janse van Rensburg, Senior Director: University Estates at the UFS, during the Bloemfontein Campus graduation ceremony today.
Graduations will take place in person in the Callie Human Centre from 19 to 22 April 2022, and on the Qwaqwa Campus from 29 to 30 April 2022.
For more information on the April graduation, please visit the UFS website
