University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

The University of Witwatersrand, the University of Pretoria and the Technikon Witwatersrand have their inception in the South African College in Cape Town and the School of Mines which was set up in Kimberley in 1895.

In 1894, the Government of the Cape Colony chose that their understudies needed to – following two years of preparatory specialized direction at the South African College – experience a one-year specialized guidelines syllabus at the Kimberley School of Mines and a last, fourth year in Johannesburg.

In 1903, the Kimberley School of Mines turned into the Transvaal Technical Institute, changed to the Transvaal University College in 1906 and after that, in 1916, fan out into the South African School of Mines and Technology and in addition the Transvaal University College.

The South African School of Mines and Technology changed its name to the University College Johannesburg in 1920, which in the end turned into the Technikon Witwatersrand in 1979. The Transvaal University College meanwhile turned into the University of Pretoria in 1930.

In 2005, the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) was converged with the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) to frame the now known University of Johannesburg (