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Old Main Building, University of Stellenbosch, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch This building was erected between 1880 and 1886 to provide proper housing for the Stellenbosch College. This so-called Main Building is in the Neo-Classical style, Carl Hager being the architect, and played an important part in the history of the Victoria College and ...
In 1887, this college was renamed Victoria College; when it acquired university status on 2 April 1918 it was renamed once again, to Stellenbosch University. [12] Initially only one university was planned for the Cape but after the government was visited by a delegation from the Victoria College , it was decided to allow the college to be a ...
In 1905 the first women's hostel to be established in Stellenbosch was Harmonie . [21] Harmonie and Wilgenhof were part of the Victoria College. In 1909 an old boy of the school, Paul Roos, captain of the first national rugby team to be called the Springboks, was invited to become the sixth rector of the school. He remained rector until 1940.
Drostdy Technical High School; Hex Valley High School; Makupula Secondary School; Labori High School; La Rochelle Girls' High School; Paarl Gimnasium; Paarl Boys' High School; Kayamandi High School; Paul Roos Gymnasium; Rhenish Girls' High School; Stellenbosch High School; Klein Nederburg Secondary School
It was originally built to house exclusively black migrant male labourers employed on the farms in the Stellenbosch area. In 1966, the nine largest employers in the Stellenbosch district including Stellenbosch University , the town administration, several vineyards and a fruit packing company united to erect 38 ready-made homes, so called hostels.
Founded in 1949, the University of Pretoria's now defunct Graduate School of Management was the first business school in South Africa and was the first MBA programme to be launched outside of North America, [1] [2] whilst the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and University of Stellenbosch Business School, founded in 1964, are ...
In 1883 Charl Marais owned the land. He sold it to Maria Elizabeth Green (b 6 July 1856). In 1898 Hermanus Lambertus Bosman de Waal (b. 21 September 1863) bought it and he sold it to Francois Stephanus de Villiers in 1899. In the 20th century it was sold to Old Mutual and in 1969 residential development started. Stellenburg then became Stellenberg.
The school grew rapidly, as girls from the wider Stellenbosch community joined the missionaries' daughters (by 1866 47 pupils attended the school) [2]. After a new site had been developed on farmland next to Krigeville, the high school moved there in 1958, whilst the primary school continued in the old premises on the Braak.