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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 ...
Rondebosch lies between the slopes of Devil's Peak in the west and the M5 freeway in the east; it is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, which lie along the eastern slope of the Table Mountain massif. The suburb's western border with the Table Mountain National Park is defined by the M3 freeway.
Cape Town is located at latitude 33.55° S ... Groote Schuur is the chief academic hospital of the University of Cape Town's medical school, providing tertiary care ...
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 apartheid government as a university for Coloured people only. Other universities in Cape Town are the University of Cape Town ...
The Rhodes Memorial is a large monument in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, situated close to Table Mountain. It is a memorial to the English -born South African politician Cecil John Rhodes (1853 – 1902), was designed by architect Herbert Baker and finished in 1912.
The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology is a South African biological research and conservation institute based at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The mission statement of the institute is “to promote and undertake scientific studies involving birds, and contribute to the practice affecting the maintenance of biological diversity and the sustained use of biological resources”.
Inaugurated. April 13, 1841. Cost. £3,000. The Egyptian Building is the home of University of Cape Town 's Michaelis School of Fine Art on that school's campus on Orange Street in Cape Town, South Africa . After its foundation on October 1, 1829, the South African Athenaeum (also known as the South African College and the forerunner of the UCT ...
South African College of Music. Coordinates: 33°57′23″S 18°28′12″E. Strubenholm, home of the SA College of Music. The South African College of Music, abbreviated as SACM, is a department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town. It is located on the university's Lower Campus in Rondebosch, Cape Town.