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The proposal for a university for the capital, first mooted in the Volksraad in 1889, was interrupted by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War in 1899. In 1902 after the signing of the Peace of Vereeniging, the Normal College for teacher training was established in Groenkloof, Pretoria and in 1904 the Transvaal Technical Institute, with emphasis on mining education, opened in Johannesburg.
The North-West University (NWU) is a public research university located on three campuses in Potchefstroom, Mahikeng and Vanderbijlpark in South Africa. The university came into existence through the merger in 2004 of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, a large, historical university dating back to 1869, which also had ...
South Africa: University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg: South Africa: University of Pretoria: Pretoria: South Africa [7] University of South Africa: Pretoria: South Africa: Blue Nile University: Department of Mining Engineering: Al Roseires: Sudan: Omdurman Islamic University: Department of mining engineering Omdurman: Sudan [8] University ...
Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education: Potchefstroom: 29 November 1869 1 January 2004 [14] Now part of North-West University: Rand Afrikaans University: Johannesburg: 1967 2005 Now part of University of Johannesburg: Technikon SA 1 January 2004 [32] Now part of University of South Africa: Transvaal University College ...
The University of Pretoria (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Pretoria, Northern Sotho: Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public research university [11] [12] in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. [13] The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg-based Transvaal University ...
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT; Afrikaans: Tshwane-Universiteit vir Tegnologie) is a higher education institution in South Africa that came into being through a merger of three technikons — Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria.
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 School of Engineers is part of the South African Army Engineer Formation, which provides combat engineering corps training and teaching to military officers and personnel as well as other Military Schools (Centre's of Excellence) throughout the South African National Defence Force.