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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 ...
Professor Mulalo Doyoyo, South African engineer and inventor; known for inventing cenocell, a cementless concrete. George Ellis, cosmologist; collaborator with Stephen Hawking; winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize. Tim Hawarden, astrophysicist. Michael David Kirchmann, architect and developer, founder of GDSNY.
University of Cape Town Libraries (UCT Libraries) is the library system of the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. The library system holds roughly 1.2 million print volumes and over 100,500 print and online journal subscriptions. An Africana research collection can be found in the Special Collections Division and consists of ...
Founded. 1942. Headquarters. University of Cape Town. Website. www .varsitynewspaper .co .za. Varsity is the official student newspaper of the University of Cape Town (UCT), printed since 1942. [1]
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 ...
27 July 1954 (age 70) Alma mater. University of Cape Town. University of Cambridge. University of Oxford. Children. 5; including Dan. Hugh Corder is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town. He served as UCT's youngest and longest-serving Chair of Public Law from 1987 to 2020.
Away colours. University of Cape Town Football Club, also known as UCT FC, is the football club representing the University of Cape Town based in Cape Town, South Africa. The University of Cape Town Football Club boasts 250 student members with three men's teams and three women's teams. The Men's & Women's First Teams represent the university ...
The Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT) is the ceremonial head of the university, representing it in the public sphere and conferring degrees in its name. The Chancellorship is a titular position; the chief executive of the university is the Vice-Chancellor. The current Chancellor, the sixth since UCT was elevated to university ...