Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University   (University, Deep state milieu)
Formation	1918
Headquarters	Stellenbosch, South Africa
A key institution in the deep state Broederbond during the Apartheid era.

Stellenbosch University (Universiteit Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch University used to be a predominantly Afrikaans-medium university. However, as the student body became more diversified, pressure mounted for more classes in English. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa together with the University of Cape Town which received full university status on the same day in 1918. Stellenbosch University (abbreviated as SU) designed and manufactured Africa's first microsatellite, SUNSAT, launched in 1999.

Stellenbosch University was the first African university to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

Broederbond

During the Apartheid era, several Stellenbosch leaders (like Hendrik Bernardus Thom and Pieter Willem Botha) were also key members of the deep state Afrikaner Broederbond which controlled South Africa.

History

The Ou Hoofgebou (Former Main Administration building, now the Law Faculty) on Stellenbosch University campus

Stellenbosch University Museum

The origin of the university can be traced back to the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, which was founded in 1864 and opened on 1 March 1866. The first five students matriculated in 1870, but capacity did not initially exist for any tertiary education. However, in the 1870s the Cape Colony's first locally elected government took office and prioritised education. In 1873, four of the five 1870 matriculates became the institution's first graduates by attaining the "Second Class Certificate" through distance learning, and the gymnasium's student numbers rose to over a hundred.

In 1874, a series of government acts provided for colleges and universities, with generous subsidies and staff. A personal intervention by the Prime Minister in the same year ensured that Stellenbosch qualified, after initially being allocated to be purely a secondary school. Later in 1874, the institution acquired its first Professor and in the coming few years its capacity and staff grew rapidly. Its first academic senate was constituted at the beginning of 1876, when several new premises were also acquired. The first MA degree (in Stellenbosch and in South Africa) was completed in 1878, and also in that year, the Gymnasium's first four female students were enrolled.

The institution became the Stellenbosch College in 1881 and was located at the current Arts Department. In 1887 this college was renamed Victoria College; when it acquired university status on 2 April 1918 it was renamed once again, to Stellenbosch University. Initially only one university was planned for the Cape but after the government was visited by a delegation from the Victoria College, it was decided to allow the college to be a university if it could raise £100,000. Jannie Marais, a wealthy Stellenbosch farmer, bequeathed the money required before his death in 1915. There were certain conditions to his gift which included Dutch/Afrikaans having equal status to English and that the lecturers teach at least half their lectures in Dutch/Afrikaans. By 1930, very little, if any, tuition was in English.

In December 2014, specialists at the university performed the first successful penis transplantation on a 21-year-old man.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Robert Black	Visiting Professor	1997	1999	Faculty of Law

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Anton Alberts	1970			Politician Lawyer	South African politician
Steven J. Hatfill	24 October 1953			Researcher Academic
Theunis Willem de Jongh	1913		South Africa	Economist Central banker	Internationally well connected South African banker in Apartheid era
D. F. Malan	22 May 1874	7 February 1959		Politician	Started South Africa's system of apartheid
Naledi Pandor	7 December 1953			Politician Academic Teacher	Ex Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
Theresa Papenfus				Author Journalist
Marius Schoon	22 June 1937	7 February 1999		Activist Teacher	South African teacher and anti-apartheid activist of Afrikaner descent.
Jeremy Shearer	4 October 1931			Diplomat
Christelle Terreblanche				Journalist Activist
Walter Veith	1949			Author Academic Speaker Clergy Zoologist Christian analyst
Hendrik Verwoerd	8 September 1901	6 September 1966		Politician Editor Professor++++++++++++++++	Verwoerd nicknamed the "father of apartheid"
John Vorster	13 December 1915	10 September 1983	South Africa	Politician Deep state operative	South African politician, Le Cercle

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