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The seat of the university is located at Ga-Rankuwa. [7] The name change from MEDUNSA to Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) was one of the causes of the riots in August 2014. [8] From 2005 to 2015, the university was a campus of the University of Limpopo, but it was separated following a review of the merger. [9]
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.
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Universities South Africa (USAf), formerly known as Higher Education South Africa (HESA), is an intermediary that represents all 26 public universities leaders to the general public and acts in the “best interests” of universities.
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Sefako Mapogo Makgatho (1861 - 23 May 1951) was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in the South African Republic (now Limpopo). [1] He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe Josiah Makgatho of the Makgatho chieftaincy at GaMphahlele. Before embarking on a political career, Makgato was a teacher and a journalist.
The University of Limpopo is the result of a merger between the former Medical University of Southern Africa and the University of the North, which occurred on 1 January 2005. [6] The extension of University Education Act of 1959 made provision for the establishment of racially exclusive universities for black South Africans.
It oversees universities and other post-secondary education in South Africa. It was created in 2009 after the election of President Jacob Zuma , when the former Department of Education was divided. The political head of the department is the Minister of Higher Education and Training ; as of February 2018 [update] this is Naledi Pandor .