Sol Plaatje University

Positioning itself as a niche university, SPU offers academic programmes of a high intellectual nature in fields that meet the needs of the South African thrust to develop a nation that is proud of its heritage and roots.

In developing the focus for its academic disciplines, SPU has looked to the unique needs, competence and characteristics of the Northern Cape region. This approach brought the current focus areas of teacher education, ICT and data science, heritage studies, paleo-sciences and creative writing in African languages to the fore.

Furthermore, in an era of concern about global warming and the more-serious threat to arid regions like the Northern Cape, SPU is developing future programmes in agricultural sciences with a focus on water-stressed conditions. The availability of physical resources together with the intellectual capacity to deliver such programmes will determine how quickly they can be implemented

Pride in its namesake
SPU takes pride in the fact that it bears the name of Sol Plaatje, a visionary South African intellectual who embraced the values and ethos to which the University subscribes.

The vision of SPU is a university critically engaging in learning, research and development – while enhancing democratic practice and social justice in society.

The SPU mission is:
To become an institution of higher learning uniquely positioned to:
  • graduate citizens competent and capable of realising the aspirations of society
  • produce new knowledge impacting on key challenges of the region
  • engage critically with communities of discourse and communities of people in order to search out pathways to equitable development.

The Sol Plaatje University is a Public university located in Kimberley.
The Sol Plaatje University was founded in 2014.
The current president of Sol Plaatje University is Prof Andrew Crouch.

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