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Gabon Delegates Visit DUT

Gabon Delegates Visit DUT

The Durban University of Technology hosted a local government delegation from Gabon on Thursday 20 September 2012.

The delegates from Libreville, who were in Durban for the Celebrate Durban Business and Fashion Fair, decided to meet the management at DUT to discuss the possibility of future prospects between the university and Omar Bongo University in Libreville.

In welcoming the delegates, DUT Senior Director for Corporate Affairs Mr. Alan Khan, touched on the university’s great relations with other countries on the African continent. He also highlighted the fact that DUT is very keen to foster new relationships in Africa and that the opportunity that Libreville presents is a good one, since Durban and Libreville are sister cities.

DUT Deputy Vice-Chancellor Institutional Support, Professor Gawe said, “It is always a pleasure to interact and get the opportunity of working and collaborating with our fellow African countries first before going out there to the rest of the world. Our history prevented us from working together but now that we are a democracy, charity begins at home and its best for us to work together.”

“The reason behind us meeting with DUT, is because we have been looking for a university to collaborate with in the training programmes that we have started and with DUT being one of the top universities in South Africa, we thought it would be willing to collaborate and grow with Omar Bongo University in Gabon,” said South African Ambassador to Gabon in Libreville Thaninga Shope Liney.

“Our collaboration would be to exchange students and learning eras in the Tourism and Maritime studies, in terms of having Omar Bongo students come to DUT, to study different languages, learn the culture and also get the experience of the university and vice versa for DUT students, this programme aims at supporting institutions in Libreville, and expanding knowledge and growing our countries” added Liney.

“We have heard a lot of good things about DUT, we know its capabilities and strengths and from all the good we have been told, I couldn’t be happier about our collaboration,” said Director of Cabinet Mr. Pierre Ndong Meye.
We need to get ahead with a proposal and brief of everything that needs to be implemented in order for this to go according to plan, and we are looking forward to it coming together, said Liney

Pictured: DUT management with the Gabonese Delegates

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