Institutions

Central Johannesburg TVET College

Johannesburg, Gauteng

Central Johannesburg TVET College (CJC) was established on 11 September 2003, when the Further Education and Training (FET) sector was launched at the college’s Alexandra campus by then Minister Prof. Kadar Asmal; the FET designation was later renamed TVET by Minister Blade Nzimande.

Port Elizabeth TVET College

Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape

Port Elizabeth TVET College (PE College), in Gqeberha, was founded in January 2002 through the merger of three technical colleges: Russell Road, Bethelsdorp and Iqhayiya. It now operates across five sites — Russell Road, Dower, Iqhayiya, Victoria and Kemsley Park — plus a central administration office (Erica).

Varsity College (The IIE)

Now: Emeris

Johannesburg, Gauteng

Varsity College was established in 1991 as a private higher education brand and grew to operate 8 campuses across South Africa (including Cape Town, Durban North, Durban Westville, Pretoria, Waterfall-Midrand, Sandton, Pietermaritzburg and Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth). It operated as an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd (The IIE), which is registered with South Africa’s Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997 (registration number 2007/HE07/002; company registration 1987/004754/07).

Damelin

Johannesburg, Gauteng

Damelin is one of South Africa’s oldest and largest private college brands, marketing nearly 80 years of career-focused education across six campuses (Braamfontein, Randburg, Menlyn, Durban, Overport and Cape Town). It offers qualifications spanning postgraduate diplomas, bachelor’s degrees, diplomas, higher certificates, certificates, skills programmes and short learning programmes across four faculties: Commerce, Science & Technology, Humanities and Education, in fields such as business management, marketing, IT, media/graphic design, education (early childhood development) and engineering.

University of Pretoria

Pretoria, Gauteng

The University of Pretoria (UP) traces its origins to 1908, when the Pretoria campus of the Transvaal University College opened with 32 students in a house called Kya Rosa; it became a fully independent university in 1930. UP has grown into one of South Africa’s largest research universities, with over 56,000 total students (around 53,000 contact and 3,000 distance students), roughly 36,000 undergraduates and 12,500 postgraduates.