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The University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874 [9] that grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the financial boost it needed ...
The University of South Africa ( UNISA) [ a ] is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's ...
Now part of North-West University: University of the Cape of Good Hope: Cape Town: 1873 1916 Renamed University of South Africa: Cape Technikon: Now part of Cape Peninsula University of Technology: University of Durban-Westville: Westville: 1972 1 January 2004 [11] Now part of University of KwaZulu-Natal: Eastern Cape Technikon: 1994 2005
The University of the Western Cape ( UWC; Afrikaans: Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland) is a public research university in Bellville, near Cape Town, South Africa. The university was established in 1959 by the South African government as a university for Coloured people only. Other universities in Cape Town are the University of Cape Town ...
It is the third oldest South African university in continuous operation, after the University of Cape Town (founded in 1829), [6] and Stellenbosch University (founded in 1866). [7] Eight years later, in 1904, the school was moved to Johannesburg and renamed the Transvaal Technical Institute .
Statue being removed on 9 April 2015. Rhodes Must Fall was a protest movement that began on 9 March 2015, originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that commemorates Cecil Rhodes. The campaign for the statue's removal received global attention [ 2][ 3] and led to a wider movement to "decolonise" education across ...
Blue and White. Website. www.cput.ac.za. Cape Peninsula University of Technology ( Afrikaans: Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie) is a university in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the only university of technology in the Western Cape province, and is also the largest university in the province, with over 32,000 students.
University of Fort Hare. / 32.78750°S 26.84750°E / -32.78750; 26.84750. The University of Fort Hare ( Afrikaans: Universiteit van Fort Hare) is a public university in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa . It was a key institution of higher education for Africans from 1916 to 1959 when it offered a Western-style academic education to ...