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COVID-19: Welcoming Ceremony Master's Programmes postponed

As South Africa faces the locally expanding coronavirus epidemic, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) executive management team has decided to postpone contact classes and to reschedule the academic calendar.

Therefore, the welcoming ceremony, scheduled for 20 March 2020, is postponed. Details regarding the rescheduling of the ceremony will be communicated via the Centre's website and social media channels in due course.

We urge our students, staff, friends and colleagues to stay safe as we collectively turn the tide against this pandemic.


You are cordially invited to the Centre for Human Rights Master’s Programmes Welcoming Ceremony. On this occasion, 61 students from 24 African countries on the following programmes of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will be introduced: 

Date: Friday 20 March 2020 

Time:17:45 for 18:00 
Venue: Freedom Park (Corner Koch and 7th Avenue, Salvokop, Pretoria) 

Enquiries: Ashwanee.Budoo@up.ac.za / 012 420 6703 

The Welcome Address to the Master’s students will be delivered by 
JUSTICE ZAK YACOOB 
Former Judge, Constitutional Court of South Africa 

The Keynote Address at the Welcoming Ceremony will be delivered by 
MS LINDIWE KHUMALO 
Advisor to the Chairperson, African Union Commission 


For more information on the Centre for Human Rights visit www.chr.up.ac.za  

Supported by the European Union

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