University of the Witwatersrand

Template: Infobox college / Logo missing template: Infobox university / carrier missing template: Infobox university / professors missing

The Witwatersrand University (English: University of the Witwatersrand ), short Wits, is a South African university based in Johannesburg in the Gauteng Province. The Wits originated from the South African School of Mines, which was opened in 1896. 1922, was awarded the university status and introduced the present name. During the time of apartheid, only a few black students were allowed to enroll. However, some well-known anti -apartheid leaders studied here.

The university is home to the Witwatersrand University Press, the largest and oldest university publishing in Africa and remains one of the leading African publishing houses in the academic field.

History

The college was founded in 1896 in Kimberley under the name South African School of Mines. Eight years later, she moved to Johannesburg and changed its name to the Transvaal Technical Institute. In 1906 she was renamed the Transvaal University College and in 1910 South African School of Mines and Technology. 1922, after she had taken the college, she finally received the status of a full university. That same year, construction began on the campus in Milner Park. Six faculties were planned, the degrees in the humanities and natural sciences, medicine, engineering, law and economics should offer.

During the 1960s, the University opened many new fields and buildings; they grew from 6,275 students ( 1963) to over 16,400 (1985). The Graduate School of Economics has been opened in Parktown 1968. In the same year a farm called Swartkrans, which is rich in archaeological remains, and the excavation rights for Makapansgat in the Limpopo Province was acquired near Sterkfontein. In 1969, the clinical departments of the new medical school were inaugurated. The main administration building Senate House in 1977 related.

1984, the University was greatly expanded when it acquired the fairgrounds in Milner Park and transformed it into the West Campus. In the same year the building of the mine chamber opened. A pedestrian crossing was built over the expressway that separates East and West campus from each other.

Organization

Line

The university is headed by a Vice-Chancellor and Principal, the management are in addition five deputy vice-chancellor and a testing official. The Registrar shall be representative tasks. The line is the University responsible.

Faculties

The Wits consists of five faculties:

  • Economy, law and management. The Faculty has a Graduate School of Business Administration and Public and Development Management. In " WitsPlus programs " can also be purchased in the undergraduate part -time study. The university collaborates with the Global Labour University.
  • Engineering and Civil Engineering
  • Medicine
  • Humanities
  • Natural sciences

University buildings

  • Art galleries: Two art galleries are open to the public - the " Gertrude Posel Gallery " and the "Studio Gallery". Both are located in Senate House. The "Studio Gallery " is known for one of the best collections of African beadings.
  • Museums: The University comprises 14 museums. These include the " Adler Museum of the History of Medicine ", the Palaeontology Museum and the only Geology Museum of the Province of Gauteng. Exhibits include, among others, the Taung skull, dinosaur fossils and butterflies.
  • Sterkfontein Caves (near Krugersdorp ): You're known worldwide as one of the most important finds of hominid fossils. The area has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In addition to the caves is the Robert Broom Museum.

Famous alumni and faculty members

  • Dennis Brutus (1924-2009), poet and anti-apartheid fighters
  • Rory Byrne ( born 1944 ), chief designer for the Ferrari Formula 1 team
  • Johnny Clegg ( born 1953 ), guitarist, singer, dancer and composer
  • Mimi Coertse (* 1932), soprano, Austria since 1966 Kammersängerin
  • Raymond Dart (1893-1988), anatomist and anthropologist, who discovered the Taung skull
  • Clement M. Doke (1893-1980), linguist
  • John Dugard ( b. 1936 ), lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur of
  • Max Gluckman (1911-1975), anthropologist
  • Richard Goldstone ( born 1938 ), lawyer, international lawyer and former UN chief prosecutor
  • Gavin Hood ( born 1963 ), writer, film producer and director, made ​​famous by the director of Tsotsi
  • Teresa Heinz Kerry ( b. 1938 ), philanthropist and wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry
  • Ludwig Lachmann (1906-1990), economist and member of the Austrian School
  • Winnie Madikizela - Mandela ( born 1934 ), former wife of Nelson Mandela
  • Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), ANC leader and first president of the Republic of South Africa, who was elected in free elections by universal suffrage
  • Manfred Mann ( b. 1940 ), keyboard player of musical groups Manfred Mann and Manfred Mann's Earth Band
  • Eduardo Mondlane (1920-1969), anthropologist, professor at Syracuse University and founder of the liberation movement FRELIMO
  • Seymour Papert ( born 1928 ), a pioneer of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Logo programming language
  • Audrey Richards (1899-1984), a social anthropologist
  • Jonny Steinberg (born 1970 ), journalist and author
  • Helen Suzman (1917-2009), anti -apartheid activist and politician
  • Ivan Vladislavić (* 1957), writer
  • Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (1906-1947), poet, writer and linguist
  • David Webster (1945-1989), anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist
  • Frederik van Zyl Slabbert (1940-2010), sociologist and politician
  • Peter Horn (* 1934), writer and literary critic

Nobel Laureate

  • Aaron Klug, 1982 ( Nobel Prize in Chemistry )
  • Nadine Gordimer, 1991 ( Nobel Prize for Literature )
  • Nelson Mandela, 1993 ( Nobel Peace Prize )
  • Sydney Brenner, 2002 ( Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology )

Books for University

  • The Golden Jubilee of the University of the Witwatersrand. 1972, ISBN 0-85494-188-6 (Jubilee Committee, University of the Witwatersrand Press)
  • Bruce Murray: Wits: The Early Years: a History of the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg and its Precursors 1896 - 1936 1982, ISBN 0-85494-709-4 ( University of the Witwatersrand Press).
  • Mervyn Shear: Wits: A University in the Apartheid Era. 1982, ISBN 1-86814-302-3 ( University of the Witwatersrand Press)
  • Bruce Murray: Wits: The "Open Years". 1997, ISBN 1-86814-314-7 ( University of the Witwatersrand Press)
  • Guerino Bozzoli: A Vice-Chancellor Remembers: the Memoirs of Professor GR Bozzoli. 1995, ISBN 0-620-19369-7 ( Alpha Print)
  • Reuben and Naomi musician: Wits Library: a Centenary History. 1998, ISBN 0-620-22754-0 ( Scarecrow Books)
Chancellor (education) Geisteswissenschaft Taung Child Manfred Mann (musician) Logo (programming language) David Webster (anthropologist) Peter Horn (poet) Cape Peninsula University of Technology Central University of Technology Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
793888
de