University of KwaZulu-Natal




























































University of KwaZulu-Natal[1]
UKZN badge
Motto Inspiring Greatness
Established 1 January 2004 as merger of UN (est. 1910) and UDW (est. 1960s)[1]
Chancellor Mogoeng Mogoeng
Vice-Chancellor Professor Nana Poku
Academic staff
 1,328[2] (2016)
Students 46,539[2] (2016)
Undergraduates 24,897[3] (2007)
Postgraduates 3,807[3] (2007)
Location

Durban, Westville, Pinetown and Pietermaritzburg[1]
,

KwaZulu-Natal[1]
,
South Africa[1]
Campus 5 campuses[4]
Colours Black and red          
Website www.ukzn.ac.za

The University of KwaZulu-Natal or UKZN is a university with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.[4] It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville.[1]




Contents






  • 1 History


    • 1.1 University of Natal


    • 1.2 University of Durban-Westville




  • 2 Organization


  • 3 Academic structure


    • 3.1 College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science


    • 3.2 College of Health Sciences


    • 3.3 College of Humanities


    • 3.4 College of Law and Management Studies




  • 4 Campuses


    • 4.1 Pietermaritzburg campus


    • 4.2 Howard College campus


    • 4.3 Westville campus


    • 4.4 Nelson Mandela medical school


    • 4.5 Edgewood campus




  • 5 Student life


  • 6 Law Clinics


  • 7 Ranking


  • 8 Controversies


  • 9 Notable alumni


    • 9.1 University of Durban-Westville


    • 9.2 University of Natal




  • 10 See also


  • 11 References


  • 12 External links





History


The university was formed by the merger of the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville, in 2004.




The main clock tower of Old Main Building, on the Pietermaritzburg campus.



University of Natal


Main article: University of Natal


University of Durban-Westville


Main article: University of Durban-Westville



The Memorial Tower Building on the Howard College Campus in Durban, University of KwaZulu-Natal



Organization


The university is governed in accordance with the Higher Education Act of 1997,[5] and its constitution is specified in the Statute of the University of KwaZulu-Natal,[6] as approved by the South African Minister of Education and the Parliament of South Africa.


In the statute, the university consists of:



  • the chancellor (the titular head). The first chancellor of the merged university was Dr Frene Ginwala. It is currently Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.

  • the vice chancellor (the executive head)

  • two or more deputy vice chancellors (currently there are five full and one acting)[7]

  • the registrar (responsible for registering students)

  • the council (responsible for governance of the institution as a whole)

  • the senate (responsible for governance of academic activities)

  • the students representative council (responsible for students representation)

  • the institutional forum (responsible for advising the council on matters of human rights and equality)

  • the colleges (currently there are four)

  • the academic and support staff

  • the students

  • the convocation (all the alumni and some others)



Academic structure


The university is made up of four colleges, which are in turn made up of several schools.[8] In most cases, a subdivision is spread across one or more of the university's campuses. For example, the Chemistry is in both the Pietermaritzburg and Westville campuses.[9]



College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science



  • School of Engineering

  • School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • School of Chemistry and Physics

  • School of Life Sciences

  • School Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science



College of Health Sciences



  • School of Clinical Medicine

  • School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences

  • School of Health Sciences

  • School of Nursing and Public Health



College of Humanities



  • School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics

  • School of Arts

  • School of Social Sciences

  • School of Applied Human Sciences

  • School of Built Environment and Development Studies

  • School of Education



College of Law and Management Studies



  • Graduate School of Business and Leadership (Business Management Association in cooperation with Hampton College Durban)

  • School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

  • School of Law

  • School of Management, IT and Governance


An institute built in cooperation with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the new KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, opened in 2012. It is on the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine campus.



Campuses


The university is geographically divided into five distinct campuses,[10] which partially correspond to its managerial and academic divisions. Two campuses (Edgewood and the Medical School) house specific academic divisions (education and medicine respectively), but the remainder of the university's academic divisions span Howard College, Pietermaritzburg and Westville.



Pietermaritzburg campus




UKZN Pietermaritzburg Campus


Pietermaritzburg campus was the main location of the University of Natal and its predecessor, the Natal University College, until the opening of the Howard College campus in Durban. This campus contains the university's oldest structure, Old Main Building, built in 1912.[10] Pietermaritzburg campus offers a broad range of academic degrees and is the only UKZN campus providing training in agriculture, theology and fine arts.[10]



Howard College campus




Howard College School of Law


Howard College campus was the Durban location of the University of Natal until the 2004 merger. It spans the Berea Ridge. and is situated in a thriving environmental conservancy. The campus was opened in 1931, having been donated by Mr T. B. Davis, in honor of his son, Howard Davis, who died in the Battle of the Somme during the first world war.[11] Howard College offers a wide range of degrees, with a large engineering department consisting of Electrical engineering and Chemical engineering. The College of Humanities and College of Law and Management are also positioned on this campus together with the Centre For Creative Arts (CCA) and the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre which host annually the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), Poetry Africa, Time of the Writer and the creative dance festival JOMBA! which is produced by the FlatFoot Dance company.



Westville campus




UKZN Westville Campus


Westville campus is in an environmental conservancy in Westville, about 20 km West of Durban.[10] It was formerly the site of the University of Durban-Westville before the 2004 merger. Westville offers a range of degrees, and will soon be the main home of the disciplines of commerce and management.[10]



Nelson Mandela medical school


Nelson Mandela medical school campus, created in 1950, was originally a racially segregated part of the University of Natal.[10] It was one of the few tertiary institutions legally allowed to provide education to black people under apartheid. It was granted Nelson Mandela's name on its 50th anniversary in 2000. The medical school is the home of health sciences.



Edgewood campus


Edgewood campus is located in Pinetown, east of Durban. The buildings originally formed the Edgewood College of Education, which was incorporated into the University of Natal in 2001.[10] Edgewood is the main location of the university's Faculty of Education.[10]



Student life


UKZN is home to various student organizations such as debating unions, film clubs, poetry societies, and sports teams.


The UKZN Rugby team - The UKZN Impi - features in the highly contested Varsity Cup national rugby competition, and the Howard College Debating Union competes in both the World Universities Debating Championships[12] as well as the South African National Universities Debating Championships.


UKZN established the Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) in 1996[13]. The CCA is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation based within the School of Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It coordinates several respected annual festivals, providing students with access to creative platforms and interesting opportunities aimed at developing their artistic talents. The four main festivals organized by the UKZN CCA are:



  • Time of the Writer[14]

The UKZN Time of the Writer festival invites international authors to take place in a variety of roundtable discussions, readings, seminars, book launches, and developmental programs such as workshops, master classes and motivational talks. The festival has been running since 1998.



  • Durban International Film Festival[15]

First held in 1979, The Durban International Film Festival is one of the oldest and largest film festivals in southern Africa.[16]



  • JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience[17]


  • Poetry Africa[18]

The UKZN Poetry Africa started in 1997, and features performances, readings, and book-launches from some poets



Law Clinics


UKZN has two law clinics, one in Pietermaritzburg and one in Durban, that provide free legal assistance to those that are unable to afford it. Specializing in the areas of HIV and AIDS, Family Law, and social justice matters, the UKZN law clinics are considered to be among the leading law clinics in the country.[19]
The law clinics also provide a practical training environment for final year law students, who are mentored by the clinic's experienced practitioners. Both clinics also engage directly with the communities throughout the province through regular outreach initiatives, where the students and legal practitioners travel to various remote, impoverished communities with the intention of providing access to justice for those that are most vulnerable.



Ranking


UKZN was ranked fourth out of the universities in South Africa by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings[20] and sixth by the QS World University Rankings 2018[21]. UKZN has historically had a very strong reputation in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and is ranked first in the country for physical sciences and engineering, second for computer science, and third for mathematics[22].


Internationally, UKZN is ranked in the 401-500 bracket by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and in the 701-750 bracket by the QS World University Rankings 2018[23][24]


See also: Rankings of universities in South Africa and Rankings of business schools in South Africa


Controversies


Main article: Controversies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

There have been a number of controversies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal since its foundation.


Firstly, there have been several staff strikes and student protests,[25][26][27][28][29]
with some protests from 2009 onward involving police intervention and the use of riot control measures, as well as violence on the part of some strikers.[30][31]


Secondly, there have been a series of legal and disciplinary actions taken by senior university management against academics for speaking in public about the university.[32][33][34][35] These actions have drawn wide criticism from academics and from organisations such as Cosatu and UNESCO.[36]


They were also the cause of a 2008 staff strike.[25]



Notable alumni




  • Imani Sanga, composer and ethnomusicologist


  • Lize Heerman, singer-songwriter and media personality


As the university has only existed since 2004, very few of its graduates have yet to attain great fame. There are, however, numerous notable alumni of its founding institutions:



University of Durban-Westville




  • Malusi Gigaba, Minister of Home Affairs in South Africa


  • Pravin Gordhan, former Minister of Finance in South Africa


  • Roy Padayachie, former Minister of Public Service and Administration in South Africa


  • Gerald Pillay, Vice-Chancellor Liverpool Hope University



University of Natal





  • Penelope Andrews, president and dean, Albany Law School


  • Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist[37]


  • Tommy Bedford, rugby player and anti-apartheid activist


  • T. Alan Hatton, Ralph Landau Professor and the Director of the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at Massachusetts Institute of Technology


  • Mark Bristow, chief executive of Randgold Resources[38]


  • Colin Bundy, warden, Green College, Oxford; deputy vice chancellor, University of London[citation needed]


  • Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party[citation needed]


  • Sheila Cussons, poet[citation needed]


  • Lev David, writer, radio producer/presenter and media consultant[citation needed]


  • Adrian Furnham, organizational and applied psychologist and management expert[citation needed]


  • Craig Joubert, international rugby referee


  • Soromini Kallichurum, pathologist, medical professor[39]


  • Mazisi Kunene, poet[citation needed]


  • David Lewis-Williams, professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand[citation needed]


  • Douglas Livingstone, contemporary poet[citation needed]


  • Lara Logan, television journalist for CBS News[citation needed]


  • Colin Moss, actor[citation needed]


  • Fatima Meer, writer, academic and anti-apartheid activist[citation needed]


  • Delia North, dean of the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal


  • D.J. Opperman, Afrikaans poet[40]


  • David Papineau, academic philosopher[citation needed]


  • Alan Paton, author, Cry, The Beloved Country[citation needed]


  • Shaun Pollock, cricketer


  • Sydney Skaife, entomologist, naturalist and conservationist[citation needed]


  • William Smith, television mathematics and science teacher[citation needed]


  • John van de Ruit, novelist, actor, playwright and producer[citation needed]


  • Trevor Wadley, electrical engineer and inventor of the Wadley Loop[citation needed]


  • Alan Whiteside, AIDS researcher and author[citation needed]


  • Karthy Govender, commissioner for South African Human Rights Commission[citation needed]


  • Robert Masson, CFO of Second Cup


  • Robert B. Hargraves American geologist


  • Athol Trollip Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality


  • Lindiwe Mazibuko Former leader of the opposition in the National Assembly of South Africa.[41]




See also



  • Open access in South Africa and List of South African open access repositories


References





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External links







  • Official website

  • Fight for Fazel Khan – Union Leader Fired from UKZN in 2006

  • Freedom of Expression Institute website

  • Official UKZN twitter


  • UKZN Press website


  • "Digital Innovation South Africa". University of KwaZulu-Natal. OCLC 225596326. National collaborative...resource containing historical material of importance and interest to scholars and students. Disa.ukzn.ac.za. Formerly known as "Digital Imaging South Africa"






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