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Adams College is a historic Christian mission school in South Africa, associated with the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA). It was founded in 1853 at Amanzimtoti a settlement just over 20 miles (32 km) south of Durban by an American missionary. The settlement there is known as Adams Mission.
The college was established in 1951 by the Baptist Union of Southern Africa to prepare pastors for Baptist churches. [2] [3] Building on its Baptist heritage, today the college welcomes students from all denominations who seek to equip themselves for Christian ministry. In 2019, more than 500 students were registered across the College's ...
The Bible Institute of South Africa is an evangelical Bible college located on the False Bay coastline in Kalk Bay, Cape Town in South Africa. The college has students from across Africa, as well as from Europe, Asia and North America. BISA [1] is a non-denominational bible training college. Staff and students are drawn from a range of church ...
With its merged status, the North-West University became one of the largest universities in South Africa with the third largest student population (full-time and distance education) in the country. [5] NWU ranks among top universities locally, in Africa and globally. [6]
Frederik Willem de Klerk, State President of South Africa (1989–1994); Vice President of South Africa (1994–1996) [12] Marike de Klerk, former first lady of South Africa and leader of the National Party's women's wing. She studied commerce at the university. Pieter Mulder a South African politician and former leader of the Freedom Front Plus.
The college is named after the 18th-century English evangelist George Whitefield.. The precursor to George Whitefield College arose in the early-1970s when candidates for the CESA which is now called Reach SA Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa ministry were trained at the Bible Institute of South Africa in Kalk Bay as they had been for many years.
Public universities in South Africa are divided into three types: traditional universities, which offer theoretically oriented university degrees; universities of technology ("technikons"), which offer vocational oriented diplomas and degrees; and comprehensive universities, which offer a combination of both types of qualification.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa is a Lutheran church in South Africa. The church has 580,000 baptized members [ 2 ] in seven dioceses in South Africa, Botswana , and Eswatini , and is (by a wide margin) the largest Lutheran church in the southern African region.