celebrating professor themba a. dube (a tad celebration i)

This is the first in a series of survey papers featuring the mathematical contributions of themba dube to pointfree topology and ordered algebraic structures. we cover dube’s distinguished career and benefactions to the discipline with the early beginnings in nearness frames. we envelope the essential aspects of dube’s work in structured frames. the paper radars across the initial themes of nearness, metrization, and uniform structures that dube conceives and presents in his independent and joint published papers. pertinent subcategories of these structured frames are discussed. we also feature dube’s imprints on certain categorical aspects of his work on βl, λl, υl and ßl.