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Rhodes University
university, Grahamstown, South Africa
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education in South Africa
- In South Africa: Higher education
…Natal (Pietermaritzburg and Durban) and Rhodes University—admitted a few Black students until 1959, when their ability to do so was restricted by apartheid legislation that they fiercely opposed. The government then established several new institutions (the Universities of the North, Zululand, Western Cape, Durban-Westville, and Vista and the Medical University)…
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feature of Grahamstown
- In Grahamstown
…is also the site of Rhodes University (1904), the 1820 Settlers Memorial Museum (1965) and Nature Reserve, several important public and private schools, the Albany Museum (1855), a public library with a collection of rare 19th-century South African books, and the Leather Research Institute. Inc. city, 1950. Pop. (2001) city,…
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