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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 of Pretoria Library. University of Pretoria Library Services serves the students, faculty and researchers of the University of Pretoria. The library of the University of Pretoria is regarded as one of the top university libraries in South Africa. It provides a comprehensive information service for the university's approximately 38 ...
Pretoria was the capital of the South African Republic (a.k.a. Republic of the Transvaal; 1852–1881 and 1884–1902) the principal battleground for the First and Second Boer War, the latter which brought both the Transvaal and the Orange Free State republic under British rule.
The University of Pretoria Faculty of Education was incorporated and merged with the University of Pretoria in 1908. The Faculty has five departments, four centres and units and collaborates with more than seven international bodies. [4] The Faculty offers the undergraduate BEd degrees, postgraduate degrees as well as several continuing ...
www .up .ac .za /faculty-of-veterinary-science. The Faculty of Veterinary Science is a faculty of the University of Pretoria. Founded in 1920, it is the second oldest veterinary faculty in Africa. [4] With the exception of the faculties in Khartoum (Sudan, 1938), and Cairo (Egypt, 1946), all the other African faculties were established after 1960.
History. 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 University of Pretoria Faculty of Law was established in 1908. It consists of six academic departments, six centres, two law clinics and the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP). [4] This faculty has Departments of Jurisprudence , Mercantile Law , Private Law , Procedural Law , Public Law and Centre for Human Rights .
The University of Pretoria is a public university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university in its more than a century of academic service has delivered more than 200,000 alumni. Below is a list of prominent alumni.