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official educational institution in the fields of the Arts and
Sciences. In terms of the modern South African university system, the University of the Free State owes its formal emergence to the University of South Africa (UNISA), itself established as an autonomous university by legislation in 1916. UNISA, at the time, was an "umbrella" or federal institution with its seat in Pretoria, playing an academic trusteeship role for several colleges that eventually became autonomous universities. One of the colleges that were under UNISA's trusteeship was Grey University College, Bloemfontein. UNISA's trusteeship ended in 1949 when the Orange Free State University received a charter as a university.
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being forced to consume food which appeared to have been urinated on. The video received coverage from both South
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of the university again changed in 2001 to the
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made it possible for the language to be accepted as one of the subjects at the college as a "supplementary subject to Dutch" in 1919 when
Afrikaans became a popular subject. In 1950 the University of the Orange Free State (UOFS) was established and the official medium language was Afrikaans. The name
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English the primary medium of instruction in 2016. Subsequent to the adoption in 1999 of a new university statute, the UFS entered a significant growth period. Today, the University of the Free State
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first accepted matriculants for a full B.A. course. In 1906 the tertiary part of Grey
College became known as the Grey University College (GUC), but shortly thereafter the school and college parted ways. In 1910, the Parliament of the Orange River Colony passed legislation declaring the GUC an
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called the transformation of the university as "nothing short of a miracle" when referring to the incident and subsequent racial integration. However later assessments have argued that "neither the institutional problems nor the individual
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of the housing facilities, and for several years UFS was seen as a model integration project. However, in the mid- to late-1990s, blacks began to form a larger percentage of the student body (they are 85% of the population of the
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