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  2. University of Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Stellenbosch University - Wikipedia

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    Stellenbosch University (SU) (Afrikaans: Universiteit Stellenbosch, Xhosa: iYunivesithi yaseStellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa, which received full ...

  4. University of the Western Cape - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. University of Cape Coast - Wikipedia

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    Ranked by Times Higher Education as the Best University in Ghana. The University of Cape Coast (UCC) is a public collegiate university located in the historic town of Cape Coast in the central region of Ghana. [2] The campus has a rare seafront and sits on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It operates on two campuses: the Southern Campus ...

  6. Cape Town's 'bicycle mayor' helps township girls ... - AOL

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    CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - As Sindile Mavundla guided young girls on their bikes through a street in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, he said he had one goal: to get more of them into cycling. Known ...

  7. Mafeje affair - Wikipedia

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    Mafeje affair. The Mafeje affair[1] refers to anti-government protests by South African students in 1968 in response to a decision of the council of the University of Cape Town (UCT) to rescind anthropologist Archie Mafeje 's job offer for a senior lecturer position due to pressure from the South African apartheid government.

  8. College of Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    The college is one of the oldest TVET institutions in Cape Town. CCT was founded in 1900 making it the oldest TVET college in South Africa. Through various campus, CCT has over 11 233 plus students. As a TVET colleges, the college offers both career-oriented vocational and occupational programmes in a wide range of fields. [2]

  9. Observatory, Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Postal code (street) 7925. PO box. 7935. Observatory is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa, colloquially known as Obs. [2] Bordered by Mowbray to the south and Salt River to the northwest, the area is best known as a student neighbourhood associated with the nearby University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital.