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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 ...
QS World University Rankings ranked the top South African universities as follows (before 2010 the ranking was known as the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings): [34] QS World University 2006 to 2024 South Africa Rank. SA Rank. University. World Rank.
Contents. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT) is the executive head also referred to as the principal. The VC has the overall responsibility for the policy and administration of the University. The current Vice-Chancellor is Mosa Moshabela.
The North-West University (NWU) is a public research university located on three campuses in Potchefstroom, Mahikeng and Vanderbijlpark in South Africa. The university came into existence through the merger in 2004 of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, a large, historical university dating back to 1869, which also had ...
USAf represents all 26 public universities and universities of technology in South Africa and is a Section 21 company. Previously known as Higher Education South Africa (HESA), this voice of universities in South Africa was constituted on 9 May 2005 as the successor to the two statutory representative organisations for universities and technikons (now universities of technology), the South ...
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 "Ikey" nickname originated in the 1910s as an antisemitic epithet applied to UCT students by the students of Stellenbosch University, because of the supposed large number of Jewish students at UCT. [ 2] Since the inception of the FNB Varsity Cup, the Ikey Tigers have been one of the strongest competitors, finishing runners up in 2008 and 2010.
The UDF: The United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983–1991 (2000) Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa (2005) Jeremy Seekings (born 3 January 1962) is a British-born academic who is professor of political studies and sociology at the University of Cape Town. He is the director of the university's Centre for Social Science Research.