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Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Afrikaans: Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie) is a university in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the only university of technology in the Western Cape province, and is also the largest university in the province, with over 32,000 students. It was formed by merging the Cape Technikon and ...
Now part of North-West University: University of the Cape of Good Hope: Cape Town: 1873 1916 Renamed University of South Africa: Cape Technikon: Now part of Cape Peninsula University of Technology: University of Durban-Westville: Westville: 1972 1 January 2004 [11] Now part of University of KwaZulu-Natal: Eastern Cape Technikon: 1994 2005
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 ...
Previously known as Higher Education South Africa (HESA), formed on 9 May 2005 as a successor to the two statutory representative organisations for universities and technikons, the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors Association (SAUVCA) and the Committee of Technikon Principals (CTP).
Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Eastern Cape Technikon ← Transkei Technikon: 1991 [1] –2005: Walter Sisulu University: Peninsula Technikon: 1962-2005 → technikon, 1979 [1] Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Port Elizabeth Technikon (PE Technikon) 1882–2005 → technikon, 1979: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University ...
University of Cape Town: 116 2 University of Witwatersrand 264 3 Stellenbosch University 311 4 University of Johannesburg 357 5 University of Kwazulu Natal 401 6 University of Pretoria 439 7 North West University 540 8 University of the Western Cape 726 9 University of South Africa 861 10 University of the Free State 912 11 Rhodes University 953 12
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 ...