University of South Africa

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Group.png University of South Africa  
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Formation1873
HeadquartersPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Type Public open distance learning
Mega university with over 400,000 students in South Africa

The University of South Africa (UNISA), known colloquially as Unisa, is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's mega universities and the only such university in Africa.

Founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope, the University of South Africa (or Unisa as it is commonly known) spent most of its early history as an examining agency for Oxford and Cambridge universities and as an incubator from which most other universities in South Africa are descended.


 

Alumni on Wikispooks

PersonBornDiedNationalitySummaryDescription
Jean-Bertrand Aristide15 July 1953HaitiPolitician
Priest
Priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. Ousted twice in U.S.-supported coups.
Roland DarrollLawyer
Jorrie Jordaan
Lesetja Kganyago7 October 1965South AfricaEconomist
Central banker
Attended multiple WEF AGMs as Governor of the South African Reserve Bank
Ronald Lamola21 November 1983Politician
Lawyer
Cameron Mackenzie12 August 19607 July 2021South AfricaPolitician
COVID-19/Premature death
The 14th South African MP to die from COVID.
Gill Marcus10 August 1949Central bankerThe first woman Governor of the South African Reserve Bank
Dikgang Moseneke20 December 1947Lawyer
Judge
Robert Mugabe21 February 19246 September 2019Zimbabwe
Cyril Ramaphosa17 November 1952President of South Africa
Craig Williamson1949Spook
Jacobus Frederick van Wyk28 July 195231 July 2021South AfricaPolitician
COVID-19/Premature death
South African politician who died from COVID.
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