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The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg ( / vətˈvɑːtəsrɑːnt / ), commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa. The university has its roots in the mining industry, as do Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand in general.
The Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) was launched in 2014 and is based in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Initially started as Intercultural and Diversity Studies of Southern Africa (iNCUDISA) at the University of Cape Town, WiCDS was then established at Wits in 2014 and aims to build capacity to meet the challenges of diverse societies ...
Elisabeth Eybers, poet. Eric Fernie, art historian. Ernest Fleischmann (1924–2010), executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal, linguist, expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages. Ezekiel Mphahlele, writer and academic. Ferial Haffajee, editor of the City Press; former editor of The Mail and Guardian in ...
Chancellors. The chancellor is the titular head of the university who, in the name of the university, confers all degrees. Prince Arthur of Connaught: 1922–1938 [4] Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr: 1939–1948 [4] Richard Feetham: 1949–1961 [4] Oliver Schreiner: 1962–1974 [4] Bertrand Leon Bernstein: 1975–1982 [4] Aanon Michael Rosholt: 1982–1996 [4]
Website. www .wits .ac .za /science. The Faculty of Science is one of the faculties of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, located in TW Kambule Mathematical Sciences Building on West Campus. The Dean of the Faculty is Professor Nithaya Chetty. [1] The Faculty offers undergraduate Bachelor of Science (BSc) degrees, and ...
The gold rush saw massive development of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand, and the area today is the prime metropolitan area of South Africa. One consequence of the gold rush was the construction of the first railway lines in this part of Africa. As a result of the rapid development of the goldfields on the Witwatersrand in the 1880s and the ...
North-West University. 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 ...
Website. www .tut .ac .za. Tshwane University of Technology ( TUT; Afrikaans: Tshwane-Universiteit vir Tegnologie) is a higher education institution in South Africa that came into being through a merger of three technikons — Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria. As the number of students registering annually ...