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University of Pretoria
Universiteit van Pretoria
Yunibesithi ya Pretoria

University of Pretoria FC logo.svg

Coat of Arms of the University of Pretoria


Latin: Universitas Pretoriensis
Former names

Transvaal University College (1908–1930)[1]
Motto
Ad Destinatum Persequor (Latin)
Motto in English
"With zeal and perseverance, strive towards the goal"[2]
Type
Public university[3]
Established4 March 1908[4]
Affiliation
AAU[5]
ACU[6]
CDIO[7]
FOTIM[8]
HESA[9]
IEASA[10]
Endowment
ZAR 2,470 billion (As of 31 December 2010)[11]
Chancellor
Wiseman Nkuhlu[12]
Vice-Chancellor
Tawana Kupe[13]
Chairperson of CouncilFuthi Mtoba[14]
Administrative staff
4,099 (full-time appointments)
Students49,152 Contact
10,362 Distance
59,514 Total[15]
Undergraduates28,450[16]
Postgraduates10,484[16]
Location
Pretoria
,
Gauteng
,
South Africa[17]

Campus7 suburban campuses and facilities 1,120 hectares (2,800 acres)[18][19]
ColoursBlue, Red & Gold               









Nickname
Tuks or Tukkies[4]
MascotOom Gert[20]
Websitewww.up.ac.za
Logo University of Pretoria.PNG

The University of Pretoria (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Pretoria, Northern Sotho: Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public research university[21] in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa.[22] The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg-based Transvaal University College and is the fourth South African institution in continuous operation to be awarded university status. The university has grown from the original 32 students in a single late Victorian house to approximately 39,000 in 2010.[23] The University was built on 7 suburban campuses on 1,120 hectares (2,800 acres).[18][19]


The University is organised into nine faculties and a business school. Established in 1920, the University of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Science is the second oldest veterinary school in Africa and the only veterinary school in South Africa.[24] In 1949 the university launched the first MBA programme outside North America[25] and the university's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has consistently been ranked the top business school in Africa for executive education, as well as being placed in the top 50 in the world.[26] In 2012 the Financial Times ranked the GIBS Executive MBA 1st in Africa and 60th in the world.[26]


Since 1997, the university has produced more research outputs every year than any other institution of higher learning in South Africa, as measured by the Department of Education's accreditation benchmark.[27] In 2008, the university awarded 15.8% of all masters and doctorate degrees in South Africa, the highest percentage in the country.[28]


The university is commonly referred to as UP, Tuks, or Tukkies[29][30][31] and in post-nominals the university is typically abbreviated as Pret or UP, although Pretoria is also used in official publications.[32][33]




Contents





  • 1 History

    • 1.1 Foundational years: 1889–1929


    • 1.2 Establishment and expansion years 1929–1982


    • 1.3 Transformation years: 1982 & beyond



  • 2 Administration and organisation

    • 2.1 Governance



  • 3 Main Campus

    • 3.1 Hatfield

      • 3.1.1 Museums


      • 3.1.2 Key places




  • 4 Other campuses

    • 4.1 Onderstepoort, Pretoria


    • 4.2 Groenkloof, Pretoria


    • 4.3 Prinshof, Pretoria


    • 4.4 Illovo, Johannesburg


    • 4.5 Other sites



  • 5 Academics

    • 5.1 Library system


    • 5.2 Archives


    • 5.3 Research


    • 5.4 Digital institutional repositories

      • 5.4.1 UPeTD


      • 5.4.2 UPSpace



    • 5.5 Reputation and ranking



  • 6 Student life

    • 6.1 Residential life


    • 6.2 Student organisations


    • 6.3 Student activities


    • 6.4 Mascot


    • 6.5 Student media


    • 6.6 Civic service



  • 7 Sport

    • 7.1 Rugby


    • 7.2 Mind Sports


    • 7.3 Football



  • 8 Alumni and people


  • 9 Notable faculty


  • 10 See also


  • 11 References


  • 12 Further reading


  • 13 External links




History



Foundational years: 1889–1929








The Old Arts building in 1910, now a provincial heritage site





University of Pretoria Main Campus master plan in 1930


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 1896 the South African School of Mines was founded in Kimberley. Eight years later, in 1904, the school was moved to Johannesburg and was renamed the Transvaal Technical Institute. The school's name changed yet again in 1906 to Transvaal University College. In 1902 after the signing of the Peace of Vereeniging, the Normal College for teacher training was established in Groenkloof, Pretoria.[37] On 4 March 1908 when the Transvaal University College (TUC) transferred its arts and science courses to its newly established Pretoria Campus the precursor to the university was established, initially offering courses in languages, sciences, and law.[38][39]


Instruction commenced with 32 students, 4 professors and 3 lecturers in the Kya Rosa, 270 Skinner Street a late Victorian residence purchased from Leo Weinthal the then owner of The Press (forerunner to the Pretoria News Newspaper).[40][41][42][43] The first four professors were Prof H. Th. Reinink (Dutch), J. Purves (Scottish), D.F. du Toit Malherbe (South African) and A.C. Paterson (Scottish), who would also become the first Vice-Chancellor[37]


In 1910 the Colonial Secretary, General Jan Smuts tabled the act constituting the university as a separate entity before the Transvaal Parliament, the "Transvaalse Universiteits-Inlijvingswet" Law 1 of 1910. On 17 May 1910 the Johannesburg and Pretoria campuses separated, each becoming an independent institution. The Johannesburg campus being reincorporated as the South African School of Mines and Technology, while the Pretoria campus retained the name of Transvaal University College until 1930.[44] The South African School of Mines and Technology would later go on to become the University of the Witwatersrand in 1922.[45] In 1910 the TUC acquired its own campus in the East of Pretoria, what is now the western part of the university's main campus in Hatfield.[37][46] On 3 August 1910 Governor-General Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone laid the cornerstone of the Old Arts Building, the first building to be built on the newly established Hatfield campus.[47] The building's striking Cape Dutch and Neo-Romanesque architectural style was recognised in 1968 when it was declared a provincial heritage site .[48] During this time the colloquial name for the university, Tukkies or Tuks, was derived from the Afrikaans acronym for the college i.e. Transvaalse Universiteitskollege (TUK).


The late 1910s and early 1920s saw the establishment of several faculties as the academic activities were expanded. Courses in agriculture (1917), theology (1918), economics and political science (1919), veterinary science (1920), and music (1923) were established as the institution grew.[38]



Establishment and expansion years 1929–1982





A newspaper article celebrating the name change


On 10 October 1930 the University of Pretoria Private Act, No. 13 of 1930 changed the name of the TUC to the University of Pretoria.[49] The TUC originally established as an English medium institution had evolved into the only fully bilingual university in South Africa and remained as such until the early 1930s. The rapid increase of Afrikaans speaking students brought about an imbalance between the demographics of students and the languages of instruction. By 1931, although 65% of students were Afrikaans speaking, 68% of the classes were conducted in English. In 1932 the University Council addressed the imbalance, deciding that Afrikaans would become the only medium of instruction. An increase in student numbers necessitated the building of new facilities such as the Club Hall and Administration Building (colloquially known as the ship) when the 7th faculty, the Medical Faculty, was established in 1943.[37] This period further saw the establishment of numerous student activities such as the annual Spring Day event and intervarsity. Student publications established include the Trek in 1931, the first Rag Mag in 1936 and the weekly student newspaper, Die Perdeby in 1939.[37] The period of 1948–1982 is characterised by the substantial increase in numbers of an almost exclusively white student body and the concomitant physical growth of the university infrastructure. The nearly doubling of student numbers demanded the physical expansion of the Hatfield campus and new buildings were built in quick succession as the campus grew eastward.[37] In the mid-1960s, the university urgently required additional land and acquired the adjacent property of Christian Brothers' College, Saint Gabriel's.[50] This property now forms the eastern section of the Hatfield campus.


In 1949 the university founded the Graduate School of Management (GSM),[51]



Transformation years: 1982 & beyond






University of Pretoria Faculty of Law building


During the period of 1982 to 2008, the university transformed into a bilingual, multiracial and inclusive institution. The comparatively smooth introduction of students from all races formed the initial impetus for transformation and in 1989 the university was declared officially desegregated and opened for all races. In 1993 a policy document was introduced, aiming to position the university in a newly democratic South Africa. In 1994 the university regained its status as a bilingual university when a new language policy was adopted.


In 1999 the only two veterinary science faculties in the country, those of the University of Pretoria and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, formerly Medunsa, were amalgamated. The university's Onderstepoort campus once again housed the only veterinary faculty in South Africa. In 2000 the Teachers Training College Pretoria, formerly the Normal College Pretoria founded in 1902, was incorporated into the university's Faculty of Education, which saw the faculty moving to the self-sufficient Groenkloof campus.[37]


The university's business school in Illovo, Johannesburg, the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), was established in January 2000 following a substantial contribution by Sir Donald Gordon, the founder of Liberty Life and Liberty International, and a major investment by the University of Pretoria following discussions which started in 1998. The now defunct Vista University's Mamelodi campus was incorporated on 2 January 2004, as part of the restructuring of South African tertiary institutions.[52] In 2011 GIBS opened a satellite campus on Pritchard Street in the inner city of Johannesburg.[53][54] The Business school follows on the university's, now defunct Graduate School of Management's, long tradition of MBA tuition as the first business school outside North America and replaced it in January 2008.[55]



Administration and organisation



Governance


Further information: List of Vice-Chancellors and Chancellors of the University of Pretoria























Faculty founding
Faculty
Year founded
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences1920
Faculty of Education1902
Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology1908
Faculty of Health Sciences1943
Faculty of Humanities1908
Faculty of Law1908
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences1917
Faculty of Theology1919
Faculty of Veterinary Science1920
Gordon Institute of Business Science2000

As set out in the Higher Education Act No 101 of 1997, the university is governed by the Council with the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Cheryl de la Rey, the executive head responsible for the day-to-day administration, and the Chancellor, Wiseman Nkuhlu, being the non-resident titular head of the university.[56] The Registrar is responsible for the academic administration of the university, as well as legal matters, and is secretary to the University Council and Senate.


The university's academic activities are divided into nine faculties and one business school. Whilst the faculties comprise 140 departments and 85 institutes, bureaus and centres.[57]



Main Campus





The Old Arts building now houses several museums



Hatfield





The Administration Building (frequently nicknamed "The Ship") at the corner of Lynnwood and University Roads.[58]


The university's main campus and central administration offices are situated in the suburb of Hatfield, Pretoria and houses six of the nine faculties.[59][60] The campus, bordered by the suburb of Brooklyn to the south and Hatfield to the north, was built over 24 hectares (59 acres) and has more than 60 buildings of historical value.[61]


Adjacent to the Hatfield Campus is the Hillcrest Campus, which contains the High Performance Centre and LC de Villiers Sports Grounds, were developed on an area of 76 hectares (190 acres).[62] Adjacent to the sport grounds is the university's experimental farm, which is used to conduct field experiments for the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.[63] The campus is served by the Hatfield Gautrain station connecting Pretoria and Johannesburg. A university bus shuttle service operates between the Hatfield campus and the Groenkloof and Prinshof campuses, whilst a park-and-ride shuttle service operates between the Hatfield and Hillcrest campus.



Museums


The university's art collection consists primarily of paintings, sculptures and graphic works by South African artists including the likes of Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, Gregoire Boonzaier, William Kentridge and Sam Ngethwa. The collection also incorporates artworks by renowned international artists such as Max Pechstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, George Grosz, Otto Mueller, Rembrandt van Rijn, Thomas Benton and Marc Chagall. The university's sculpture collection, the largest such collection in South Africa, contains sculptures by Sidney Kumalo, Maureen Quinn, Michael Teffo, Anton Smit and others.[64]


The Old Arts Building was proclaimed a provincial heritage site in 1968[65] and houses the Van Tilburg Collection, Van Gybland-Oosterhoff Collection and Mapungubwe Collection. The Van Tilburg Collection is a permanent museum that exhibits 17th and 18th century furniture,[66]paintings,[67]Delft ceramics[68] and other works of art, and includes the largest South African collection of Chinese ceramic objects, from the Qin (221–206 B.C.), Han (202 B.C. – A.D. 220), Tang (A.D. 618–906), Song (A.D. 960–1279), Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1912) dynasties.[68]





The university is the custodian of the collection of artefacts found at the Mapungubwe National Park and World Heritage site[70][71] and such display these artefacts in the Mapungubwe Museum.[72][73] Gold ornaments, ivory, bone, ceramic-ware, clay figurines, trade beads, iron and copper artefacts are on permanent public display.[74] The Van Gybland-Oosterhoff Collection is a ceramic collection, donated by Dr Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff and accepted by the university on 14 March 1939, is the largest collection of objects, publications, memorabilia and photographs of historical interest, relating to Dutch culture outside the Netherlands.[75][76]


The Old Merensky Library houses the Edoardo Villa Museum. The Edoardo Villa Museum currently houses the largest collection of sculptures by the Italian artist Edoardo Villa and one South Africa's most renowned sculptors, who was mentored by Minotti at the Scuola D’Arte Andrea Fontoniby.[77][78]


The Van Wouw Museum is the largest collection of bronze, marble and plaster sculptures by the famous pioneer South African sculptor, Anton van Wouw (1862–1945).[79] Van Wouw, who is widely regarded as the founder of traditional sculpture in South Africa,[80] created masterful artworks portraying Boer figures and the indigenous peoples of South Africa. Besides documents, photos, paintings and tools the exhibits are mainly bronze maquettes and casts of Van Wouw's sculptural work.[81] The Van Wouw Museum is housed in Anton Van Wouw's last residence,[82] a Dutch national monument.


Other minor art collections include the Christo Coetzee collection which was bequeathed to the university by the artist in 2001 and consists of more than 3000 objects, NPK Ceramics Collection, Hilgard Muller Collection, Mike Edwards Collection, Kruger Collection, Frans Esterhuizen Cartoon Collection, Hansie Visagie Puppet Collection, Friends of the Pretoria Art Association Art Collection, Baldinelli Trust Collection and Mimi Coertse Collection.




A retired SAAF Mirage F1CZ donated to the University and assembled with the help of the South African Air Force Museum from AFB Swartkop, the Air Force Servicing Unit at the Waterkloof Air Force Base, Mirage specialists from Aerosud, Lona Construction and Intermine Agencies. The Mirage F1 was assembled in order to promote science and technology at the University of Pretoria.[83]


The University's Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Discovery Centre, Sci-Enza, was officially launched in 1977.[84] The Discovery Centre is an umbrella complex where young children, students and adults can explore the world of science, engineering and technology in a "play-as-you-learn" way.[84] Activities at the Centre museum include: a digital planetarium; exploratorium; camera obscura;[85] biological science exhibit; botanical garden[86] and indigenous technology exhibit.[87]






  • Willem Lodewijk, etching done by Jacobus Houbraken, published by Isaac Tirion, 1752. Forming part of the van Gybland-Oosterhoff Collection





  • Equine sculpture by Danie de Jager, Lc de Villiers Sports grounds[88]





  • Illustration of a gold rhino statuete in the Mapungubwe Museum




Key places


Main article: Kya Rosa




The University Chapel


The main hall and site of ceremonies, the Aula, was designed by Karel Jooste and completed in 1958. The Aula was the first Opera House to be built in the capital and remained the major venue in the city until the State Theatre's completion in the early 1980s.[89] The 1012-seat auditorium[90] has played host to foreign dignitaries, presidents[91] and local and international artists.[92] The main music complex, comprising the 500-seat Musaion and 3000-seat Amphitheatre, was built between 1960–1964.[23] The University Chapel, formally the Church of Saint Alfons Maria de Liguori, and the accompanying Monastery, was built in 1925 and was bought from the Catholic Church in 1980. Saint Alfons, who was canonised in 1839, was the founder of the order of Ligournians (or Redemptorists), an order founded in 1732 in Naples, Italy and dedicated to helping underprivileged communities.[93]



Other campuses



Onderstepoort, Pretoria


The possibility of training veterinarians in South Africa was frequently raised after the first Colonial Veterinary Surgeon in South Africa was appointed in approximately 1874, but it was not until 1920 that the Swiss-born veterinarian, Sir Arnold Theiler, was appointed as Director of Veterinary Education and Research at Onderstepoort under the supervision of the then Transvaal University College. New facilities were inaugurated at the end of 1921 and the first residence was opened in 1924. The first eight South African trained veterinarians qualified in 1924.


The Faculty of Veterinary Sciences was developed on the 65 hectares (160 acres) Onderstepoort campus, with buildings covering a total of 55,000 square metres (590,000 sq ft) 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-west of the Hatfield campus and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of the Pretoria citycenter. The Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital provides clinical services rendered with full student participation as part of the primary teaching mission of the Faculty of Veterinary Science.[94] It is the only faculty in South Africa educating veterinarians and veterinary nurses.[95][96]



Groenkloof, Pretoria




Groenkloof campus as seen from Klapperkop hill.


During the Conference of Teachers in Town and Refugee Camp Schools of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony of 1–10 July 1902, a resolution was passed to establish "Normal Schools" for the education of teachers in Johannesburg and Pretoria. The Pretoria Normal School, was first established in a house in 126 Rissik Street. In 1903 the Johannesburg Normal School's 40 students were transferred to Pretoria when it was closed and the Pretoria and Johannesburg institutions were merged to form the Transvaal Normal College. When the Transvaal University College was established in 1908 the first students include students from the Transvaal Normal College. In 1909 the school was renamed the Pretoria Normal College when new teacher training facilities were established in Heidelberg and Johannesburg. In 1954 the school was again renamed to the Onderwyskollege van Pretoria (English: Teachers College Pretoria). In 1974 the University of Pretoria took over the sole responsibility for training secondary teacher from the Teachers College Pretoria.


Although the Teachers College Pretoria purchased new college grounds in Groenkloof during 1975, the college only occupied the new grounds in 1988 and was inaugurated in 1989. The Johannesburg Goudstadse Onderwyskollege (English: Gold-city Teachers College), Transvaal College of Education, Laudium and the Transvaal Education College Soshanguve amalgamate and move their operations to the Teachers College Pretoria in 1993 and the latter two in 1998 respectively. In 2000 the Teachers Training College Pretoria was incorporated into the university's Faculty of Education, which saw the faculty moving from the main Hatfield campus to the self-sufficient Groenkloof campus.[97][98]



Prinshof, Pretoria


25°43′57″S 28°12′10″E / 25.73250°S 28.20278°E / -25.73250; 28.20278


Students in the Faculty of Health Sciences are taught at the Prinshof Campus, adjoining the Steve Biko Hospital (formerly Pretoria Academic Hospital and HF Verwoerd Hospital), the main healthcare training facility of the university, and the Tshwane District Hospital.[99] Additional healthcare training facilities include the Kalafong Hospital on the western outskirts of Pretoria in the suburb of Atteridgeville, the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital west of the city centre and built on the site of the old Pretoria botanical gardens and Tembisa Hospital south of Pretoria in the East Rand, Johannesburg.



Illovo, Johannesburg


The university's business school, the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), is situated in a greenfield campus in the Illovo Boulevard, mixed-use commercial node between the suburbs of Rosebank and Sandton in Johannesburg,[100] with a satellite Inner City Campus on Pritchard Street.[101] The Illovo campus is served by the Rosebank Gautrain station, with a nearby Gautrain bus stop and the inner city campus by the Johannesburg Park Station. GIBS Europe operates out of London, United Kingdom offering company specific programmes.



Other sites


The Witbank and Hammanskraal satellite campuses, were established in 1988 and 1994 respectively and are used as additional practical facilities and for community engagement.[102] The now defunct Vista University's Mamelodi campus was incorporated on 2 January 2004, as part of the restructuring of South African tertiary institutions.[52] The Mamelodi campus hosts the extended BSc degree programme and functions as the community engagement hub for the university.[103]



Academics



Library system





The Old Merensky Library


See also: University of Pretoria Library Services and University of Pretoria Special Collections




In 1933 the University decided that the library collection necessitated the building of a new library building, the collection which at that time was kept in the Old Arts building. The library was designed by the South African architect Gerard Moerdijk, following a donation of £10,000 from mining geologist Dr. Hans Merensky and construction started in 1937.[105] Drawing from his inspiration from Persia and Africa, the design of the building incorporates several architectural styles including Art Deco, Neo-Classicism, Arts and Crafts, Cape Dutch and Regency. The Old Merensky Library was proclaimed a provincial heritage site in 1991.[106]


Despite expansions to the Old Merensky Library in 1957, the library subsequently became insufficient to meet the growing needs of the institution and in 1975 the Merensky Library II was completed, currently housing 7 of 9 the faculty libraries.[107] Besides the main Merensky Library complex, the university library system also includes the separately administered Jotello F Soga Library (Veterinary Science), Oliver R Tambo Law Library, Education Library, Mamelodi Library, Dentistry Library and Health Sciences Library.[108]


The Oliver R Tambo Law Library houses the Faculty of Law's collection of legal materials and the Law of Africa collection in the library is the single most comprehensive and current collection of primary legal materials of African countries.[109]


In 1974 the Jotello F Soga Library of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the Onderstepoort campus was established and is named in honour of the first South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon, Dr Jotello Festiri Soga.[110]


In 2006 the University established UPSpace, its own open access digital research repository.[111] and the university's library has since become one of 27 partners in the World Digital Library project.[112]



Archives


In 1978 the first task group responsible for the investigation in creating an archive system for the University of Pretoria was chaired by Prof. A.N. Pelzer (Vice-rector). Due to the death of Prof. Pelzer in 1981 the project stalled, but by 1994 the need for a central archive system was again recognised by the acting Registrar, Prof. C.R. de Beer. The archives were finally established by 13 September 1994 by the Management of the University and this date is considered as the founding date of the archives of the University of Pretoria.[113]



Research





The Faculty of Humanities building, designed by alumnus Brian Sandrock, was constructed over Roper Street in 1977[114]


The university's achievements and performance in research locally and internationally, including its collaboration and cooperation with the private sector, industry, science councils, foundations and NGOs, the large number of graduates that it produces (particularly doctoral and other postgraduate students) as well as scientists and engineers[115] and its focus on innovation,[116] contribute directly towards enhancing the South Africa's competitiveness.[117] A 2010 report by Centre for Higher Education Transformation identified the university as a top research-intensive university in South Africa.[118] The university is member of the CDIO Initiative, an international engineering education collaboration.[119][120]


Main article: Southern Education and Research Alliance

In 1999 a strategic alliance was formed between the University of Pretoria and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).[121] This alliance, which is known as the Southern Education and Research Alliance[122] (SERA), collaborates locally and internationally with universities, NGOs, companies and multinational bodies in various research areas.[123]


Notable research includes:


  • Centre for Human Rights


  • Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)

  • African Centre for Genome Technologies


Digital institutional repositories



UPeTD


UPeTD (University of Pretoria electronic theses and dissertations) was launched in July 2000 and forms part of the university's open scholarship programme. In January 2012 the Webometrics World Ranking of Institutional Repositories ranked the UPeTD website, 69th in the world.[124]



UPSpace


UPSpace (Institutional research repository of the University of Pretoria) is the name of the open access digital institutional repository of the University of Pretoria, established as a means for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.[125] UPSpace contains a collection of the intellectual and research output produced by past and current researchers of the University of Pretoria. The spectrum of material covered includes the following historical or archival material, research articles, popular research material, unpublished research, inaugural addresses, conference proceedings, technical reports and open lectures.



Reputation and ranking





The Kya Rosa, the original building of the Transvaal University College





The first student council in 1909





Rag festivities in Church Square in 1910





Welcoming day for first years in 1929





Spring day festivities in 1939





The university's mascot, Oom Gert in 1939


League table rankings
See also: Rankings of universities in South Africa and Rankings of business schools in South Africa

The QS World University Rankings ranks the university as follows:[126]






























































YearWorld rankArt & Humanities
Archaeology
Biological SciencesEngineering & ITLife SciencesAgriculture & Forestry
TheologySocial Sciences
2018501–550345
151–200
351–400—391101–150
51–100398
2017451–500
351–400
151–200
301–350351–400—101–150
51–100351–400
2016401–500—
—
301–400291—101–150
——
2015501+—
—
301–400——101–150
——
2014469405
—
—36836751–100
—290




























Financial Times World Ranking200720082009201020112012
Executive MBA[26]----6760
Executive Education Customised[26]49514138-42
Executive Education Open[127]393849504947

In January 2011 Webometrics ranked the university as the 2nd in South Africa and Africa.[128]


In January 2015 Webometrics ranked the university as the 3rd in South Africa and 4th Africa.[129]


In July 2015 Webometrics ranked the university as the 4th in South Africa and Africa.[129]



Student life



Residential life


Residence is provided to students in 24 undergraduate and postgraduate residences and 3 postgraduate-only residences spread over the University's campuses.[130] The first students of the Transvaal University College resided in the Kya Rosa, a Victorian house in Skinner Street. In 1915, the first male residence, Kollegetehuis, was constructed on the Hatfield campus[131] and the first female residence, Asterhof, in 1925.[132] Students not living in a University residence can join one of four Day Houses (Luminous, Vividus Men, Vividus Ladies and Zeus) which gives them the opportunity to partake in organised student life activities.[133]



Student organisations


More than 100 student clubs and organisations operate on the university campus.[134] These include numerous student government, service providers, and service organisations. The most prominent amongst these are the Student Parliament, Student Representative Council, and Constitutional Tribunal (Student Court). The Student Parliament is the plenary body of student governance and determines the wider mandate for student governance. The Student Representative Council (SRC) is the executive body of student governance and subsequently charters and provides most of the funding for other student groups, and represents students' interests when dealing with the administration. The SRC is the residential student government, specialising in programming, policy, and facilities and services. Societies are registered in the following categories as catering for religious, political, social, cultural, academic and other. The Constitutional Tribunal is the judicial body of student governance and adjudicates disputes primarily between student organisations. Its judges sit on the panel of student disciplinary hearings. The various service providers are the university's primary programming organisations, serving as a centre of social, cultural, intellectual and recreational life.



Student activities


The university has a long tradition of student activities and traditions. It is common belief that if a blossom from a Jacaranda tree falls on your head, you will do well in the end-of-year exams.[135][136] Other traditions and customs vary by residence, day house and faculty.


The university started the tradition of Rag (student society) (Afrikaans: Jool), a student-run charitable fundraising organisation, in South Africa in 1925.[137] During Rag, students take to the streets in a parade of floats whilst collecting money for charity.


The university's Springday celebrations are a declared university holiday and are held annually on the second Wednesday of September.[138]


Students' song and dance competitions include Insync (formerly Ienkmelodienk)[139], Serenade and Serrie. In addition, the university's Drama Department hosts the annual week-long Krêkvars Arts Festival each July in the intimate Bok, Lier and Masker theatres on Hatfield campus. The festival has transformed from an event started in 2000 and centred around the drama honours students’ directing course to an open festival where other students and the public at large are encouraged to put on productions.[140]


The amphitheatre hosts the annual Insync song and dance competition between the first years of the various residences and day houses in January.[141] The annual Serenade and Serrie singing competitions between the residences and day houses are held in the Musaion and Aula theatres in July/August and April/May respectively. The winners of the Serenade competition go on to represent the university at the National Serenade competition.[142]


The university maintains the: UP Symphony Orchestra (UPSO), the only comprehensive student orchestra in Pretoria frequently performing symphonic repertoires,[143] UP Chorale, UP Brass Band, Tuks Camerata,[144] UP Children's choir, UP Concert choir and the UP Youth choir. The university supports, and has been host to the annual National Youth Orchestra course for a number of years.[145]


In addition to cultural activities, students participate in several other non-cultural activities. The university organises the annual SAE International sanctioned student automotive engineering Baja SAE competition in South Africa sponsored by Sasol.[146] Baja SAE is an intercollegiate and interuniversity design competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) where teams of engineering students design, build and race small off-road cars.



Mascot


Oom Gert (translates affectionately to Uncle Gert, from Dutch and Afrikaans) has been the official university mascot since 1929 and has been the object of perennial attempted kidnappings.[147]



Student media


The Perdeby (Afrikaans: The Wasp), the official university newspaper, was founded in 1939[148] and has a readership of approximately 30 000.[149]Tuks FM (107.2 FM), the campus radio station, was established on 9 February 1981 and is hosted by university students and broadcast to the Northern Gauteng area.[150]



Civic service


Civic service and outreach programmes are performed in the fields in which the University has proven competencies. These fields include professional associations, business and management and are performed in underdeveloped or developing communities.[151]



Sport





The High Performance Centre on the LC de Villiers Sport Grounds


Main article: University of Pretoria F.C.

See also: Varsity Cup

The University maintains a long tradition of student participation in sport and recreation. The University has 30 registered sport clubs and 10 academies, in which 9 000 students annually participate in on a competitive and recreational level,[152] more than 1 000 volunteers are involved in sport in various designations and capacities. In 2007, the university produced 93 Senior Proteas and Springboks and 4 South Africa national rugby union team (Springbok) Captains.[153] The university's sports facilities, on the Hillcrest Campus, include the LC de Villiers Sports Grounds and the High Performance Centre (HPC), situated at an altitude of approximately 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) above sea level, were developed on an area of 760,000 square metres (8,200,000 sq ft).[154][155]


The HPC, which was established in 2002, has become the favoured location for the pre-departure camps of Team South Africa in addition to being chosen by several national and international federations as their preferred specialisation centre.[154][156][157] The HPC hosted the Argentina national football team during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[158]


The HPC has a bifurcated role between hosting the TuksSport academies and hosting athletes and teams for pre-season or pre-event training. The HPC includes the Institute for Sport Research, Sport Science and Medical Unit and the Sports Law Centre.[159]


HPC's TuksSport High School, established in 2002, is an independent specialised co-ed sports school catering for Grade 8 – 12 learners following the National Curriculum as offered by the Gauteng Department of Education. The school is supported by several national sporting federations and allows learners to train and travel internationally whilst staying in school.[160]



Rugby





University of Pretoria Rugby team circa 1930


Rugby is a particularly popular sport, and there are competitions between residences, faculties, and the University participates in the National Club Championships, Carlton Cup[161][162] and the Varsity Cup Rugby Union tournament, involving the top 8 rugby playing universities in the South Africa. In the 2012 and 2013 seasons, the university won the Varsity Cup and the under 20 year old Varsity Rugby Young Guns competitions.[163]


The TUKS Rugby League team has their football ground as their home ground.



Mind Sports


The University has a very active club that was only founded in 2013. The club is affiliated to Mind Sports South Africa and caters for all the disciplines that are controlled by such National Federation.


The club has had some major successes in 2014, with no less than 12 gamers qualifying for National Team Trials. The club has also become the top university club in South Africa.[164]



Football


In 2002 the University established the Tuks Football Academy and the University of Pretoria F.C. oginally playing in the SAFA Gauteng South Division. In the 2003–04 season the University acquired Pretoria City F.C.'s second division status, subsequently winning the National First Division (NFD) Vodacom League play-offs and being promoted to the NFD in 2004–05. In the 2006–07 season the club qualified for the Mvela Golden League play-offs. In the 2008–09 season the club was a Nedbank Cup finalist losing to Premier Soccer League team Moroka Swallows 0–1.[165]


Following the 2011/2012 season the University of Pretoria F.C. will gain promotion to the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL), the top domestic league.[166][167]



Alumni and people





Oscar Pistorius


Main article: List of University of Pretoria alumni

See also: List of Vice-Chancellors and Chancellors of the University of Pretoria

The university, in more than a century of academic service, has delivered more than 250 000 alumni.[168]


Alumni in commerce include several CEOs of JSE Top 50 and American Fortune 500 companies.[169] Dr. Anton Rupert was a South African entrepreneur, businessman, conservationist and founder of the Rembrandt Group, which eventually split up into Remgro, Richemont, the second-largest luxury goods company in the world by turnover, and Reinet Investments, as of January 2008 the largest component of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.[170] He was honoured as Tukkie of the century, former chancellor of the university,[169] and a major benefactor of the university.[171] Marius Kloppers is the international CEO of BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company and named by CNN Money as the world's 18th most powerful person in business.[172][173] Johan De Nysschen was the former President at Audi Japan and is the current President of Audi America.[174] Russell Loubser is a former CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and a member of the team that started the futures industry in South Africa in 1987.[175] Meyer Kahn is the Chairman of SAB Miller the second largest brewer in the world.[176]


Alumni in law include several Judges of the High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court as well as serving as United Nations Special Rapporteurs and the United Nations International Law Commission. Johann van der Westhuizen is a judge in the Constitutional Court of South Africa.[177] He was appointed to the bench in 2004 by Thabo Mbeki. He was previously a professor at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law and the founding director of the university's Centre for Human Rights.[178] He currently sits on the board of the Centre for Human Rights and the University of Pretoria Council.[178]Johann Kriegler is a former Constitutional Court and Appeal Court judge from South Africa. Christof Heyns is a former Director (1999–2006) of the Centre for Human Rights, is a Professor of Human Rights Law, Co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.[179]Dire Tladi is a former Principal State Law Adviser for International Law for the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation, legal advisor to the South Africa Mission to the United Nations[180] and member of the United Nations International Law Commission.


Alumni in divinity include several theologians. Lesedi Moagi who was studying B.com Econometrics and the overall best learner in Seabe High School who made it against all odds from rural Seabe village near Hammanskraal.
Albert Geyser was a South African cleric, scholar and anti-apartheid theologian. He was one of the first Afrikaner nationalists to speak out against the Broederbond and apartheid on theological grounds. He is also known for his work as one of a number of scholars involved in the first annotated edition (1953–1958) of the Bible in Afrikaans. Johan Heyns, was an influential Afrikaner Calvinist theologian and moderator of the general synod of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK). He was assassinated, although his murder was never officially resolved it is widely believed[181] that it was directly related to his criticism of Apartheid.[182]Nelson Mandela paid homage to him as a martyr for his country[183] and a soldier of peace.[184]


Alumni include several sporting personalities. South Africa national rugby union team member's (Springboks) associated with the university include coach Heyneke Meyer[185] and former Springbok captains Victor Matfield, Wynand Claassen, Naas Botha and Joost van der Westhuizen. Other notable sporting personalities include Caster Semenya and Oscar Pistorius, who became the first double amputee runner at an Olympic Games when he competed at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.





  • Graduate with a banner of the TUC





  • Graduation ceremony of the University of Pretoria in 1918





  • Graduation ceremony of the University of Pretoria in 1920





  • Graduation ceremony of the University of Pretoria in 1922



Notable faculty



  • Conrad J. Wethmar, systematic theologian


  • Johan Heyns, systematic theologian


See also



  • Portal-puzzle.svg University of Pretoria portal


  • Open access in South Africa and List of South African open access repositories

  • SASVO


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Further reading


  • Duffey, Alexander et al. The Art & Heritage Collections of the University of Pretoria (2008)

  • van der Watt, F. Rectores Magnifici (2003). 196pp.
    ISBN 978-1-86919-043-9

  • Roodt, P.H., ed. Amfiteater: skrywerstemme van oud-Tukkies (2008) Protea Boekhuis

  • Botha, M.C. Foundation stone laid at the University of Pretoria (1942) UPSpace at the University of Pretoria: Hoeksteenlegging by Universiteit van Pretoria


External links



  • University of Pretoria Official Website

  • University of Pretoria in a Nutshell 2012/13

  • – Digital Research Repository of the University of Pretoria

  • Life at UP

  • UP Wiki

  • Tukkies Life

Coordinates: 25°45′13″S 28°13′47″E / 25.75361°S 28.22972°E / -25.75361; 28.22972











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