University of Cape Town (UCT)

The Univeersity of Cape Town (UCT) is a public reserch university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in  South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa. The language of instruction is English. As of 2013, 26,116 students were enrolled. The ratio between male and female students is almost exactly 50:50. The student body makeup comprises 32.29% "SA White" students, 43.98% non-white students (SA African, SA Coloured & SA Indian), and the remaining 23.73% identify as "international" and "other". International students account for 18.02% of total student enrollment at 4708, representing over 100 countries.
 
           The main teching campus , known as upper campus, is located on the Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's peak. This campus contain, in a relatively compac site, the faculties of Science, Engineetring, Commerce, ane Humanities ( except for the arts departments), as well as Smuts Hall and Fuller Hall residences. Upper campus is centered on jameson Hall, the location for gradution and other ceremonial events, as well as many examinations. The original buildings and layout of Upper Campus were designed by JM Solomon and built between 1928 and 1930. since that time, many more buildings have been added as the university has grown. Upper campus is also home to the main library, the chancellor Oppenheimer library which holds the majority of the univesity' 1.3 Million volume collection. 
          
               UCT has 36 different sports clubs, including team sports, individual sports, extreme sports and martial arts. The university's sports teams, and in particular the rugby union team, are known as the "lkey Tigers" or the "lkeys" nickname originated in the 1910s as an anti-semitic epithet applied to UCT students by the students of stellenbosch university, because of the supposefd large number of jewish students at UCT. stellenbosh is UCT's traditional rugby opponent; an annual "intervarsity" match is played between the two universities. UCT has a total exceeding 9000 recognised sports paticipants
        The University of Cape town was originally incorporated as a public university by a private act of parliament in 1918. At present it is incorpotated and structured by an institution atatus issued under the provisions of the Higher Education Act, 1997. The titular head of the University is the Chancellor; thisl is a ceremonial position without exceutive power. The primary role of the chancellor isl to confer degree on behalf of the university, and to represent the University to the rest of the world.  The current chancellor is Ms Graca Machel, elected for her first 10-year term in september 1999 ame re-elected in May 2010.
   
 Affiliations          AAU, ACU, CHEC, HESA, IAU, WUN
Website                 www.uct.ac.za