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An aerial view of East Campus from the north of the campus. The campuses of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg contain a number of notable buildings. There are five campuses: East Campus and West Campus are located in Braamfontein on opposite sides of the M1 highway, while the Education Campus and the Medical and Management schools are located in Parktown.
Braamfontein (English: blackberry spring, or more prosaicly blackberry springs; also known as Braam) is a central suburb of Johannesburg, in South Africa, seat of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and some of South Africa's major corporations such as Liberty Holdings Limited, JD Group (part of Steinhoff Africa), Sappi, and Bidvest (formerly Rennies) Bank and Hollard.
The building is named after Richard Ward (1891–1976) who left R1 million to Wits on his death. At the time, this was the largest amount left to the University. [4] In 2013, the School started major upgrades and modernisation of the building, with budgeted plans to the value of R75 million. [4] Renovations to date include:
Wits has entered into a few "public-private" partnerships [28] to offer online programmes, in return for a cut of generated revenue. [29] In 2022, Wits celebrated their centenary. [30] As part of the centenary, Wits has also sought to address funding for the ‘missing middle'. Who are 'too poor to be rich and too rich to be poor'. [31]
www.wits.ac.za /science The Faculty of Science is one of the faculties of the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , located in TW Kambule Mathematical Sciences Building on West Campus. The Dean of the Faculty is Professor Nithaya Chetty. [ 1 ]
The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) (Afrikaans: Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit) was a prominent South African institution of higher education and research that served the greater Johannesburg area and surroundings from 1967 to 2004.
Bidvest Wits Bidvest Stadium , is a multipurpose sports stadium in the Braampark , suburb of Johannesburg , South Africa . The stadium has a dedicated field to host football matches with a capacity of 5,000 seats, and other fields to host other sports disciplines.
The School hosts the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies, a platform for urban research, learning and civic engagement.. In recent years the centre has focused on ’urban materialities’ and the place of the poor in South African cities, including how material realities of contemporary cities (their built environments at different scales, access to urban goods and central ...