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The Wits Vuvuzela [1] is the student newspaper of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa. The newspaper is produced by the students of the Wits Department of Journalism, [ 1 ] and appears in both printed and online formats.
The farm outside of Johannesburg, near Paarlshoop, on the Witwatersrand – site of the first discovery of gold in 1886.. The first discovery of gold in the region was made in 1852 on the Pardekraal farm, Krugersdorp, in the South African Republic (ZAR) by John Henry Davis, a Welsh mineralogist.
Wits University Football Club, also known as Wits FC, is the football club representing the University of the Witwatersrand based in Johannesburg, South Africa.. Wits University Football Club boasts the largest number of members for any single sporting code in the university with two men's teams, a ladies teams and a junior program for prospective students.
A 2007 survey conducted by Princeton University found that white and higher-income Princeton students are much more likely than other Princeton students to be in fraternities and sororities. [49] Senior surveys from the classes of 2009 and 2010 showed that 77 percent of sorority members and 73 percent of fraternity members were white.
4 May 2009: Beric Croome was keynote speaker for the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) graduation ceremony for the students of the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management. Photograph shows from left to right: Acting Vice-Chancellor Y. Ballim; Beric Croome; David Kolitz, President of the Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand.
The Hartford Wits were a group of young writers from Connecticut in the late 18th century including John Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, and Lemuel Hopkins. [1] Originally the Connecticut Wits , the group formed in the late 18th century as a literary society at Yale College and then assumed a new name, the Hartford Wits.
Wales Interpretation and Translation Service, a Welsh not-for-profit organisation; Water Industry Telemetry Standard, a communications protocol; Wellsite Information Transfer Specification, used by the petroleum industry
The University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874 [9] that grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the financial boost it needed ...