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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 ...
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.
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.
There are also joint endeavours between the University of the Western Cape, the University of Cape Town, and Stellenbosch University. 20% of all students at UWC are postgraduates. Like other South African universities, UWC has been affected by sporadic student protests since 2015. The reasons for the protests change with each new period of protest.
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.
In 1910, the school was renamed Stellenbosch Boys' High School.In 1946 the school moved to new buildings in Krigeville and was renamed Paul Roos Gymnasium after Paul Roos, old boy and captain of the first Springbok team, was himself a teacher at the school, and was the school's rector from 1910 to 1940, after which the school was renamed in his honour.