Remnants of the past, struggling to gain prominance of some kind, is possibly true of the cooperative and work-integrated learning (CWIE) practices of two comprehensive higher education institutions in South Africa, namely the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and the University of South Africa (Unisa).
In 1980, the correspondence department of the then Witwatersrand Technical College became an institution in its own right, later know as Technikon SA, which 24 years later merged with Unisa in January 2004. Unisa originates from the University of the Cape of Good Hope, established in 1873 in Cape Town. In 1918 two universities in addition to Unisa, the University of Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch, stemmed from the aforementioned. Unisa became a fully fledged correspondence university in 1959.
Meanwhile, in 1895 the Kimberley School of Mines, got established and moved to Johannesburg in 1903. From it, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in 1922, and the University of Pretoria, in 1930, formed. Technikon Witwatersrand merged in Janurary 2005 with the former Rand Afrikaan University to become the University of Johannesburg.
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