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(File image) President Jacob Zuma. Photo: Jacques Naude

 

Richards Bay – New universities for Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape will be located in the capitals of the two provinces, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.

“The seat and main campus for the university in Mpumalanga will be at the Lowveld Agricultural College, a site overlooking the city of Nelspruit and close to the new provincial parliament,” Zuma told a labour department jobs fair in Richards Bay.

“In the Northern Cape, it is our intention to establish the seat and main campus in the inner city of Kimberley, injecting new life and purpose into this historic mining city,” he said in a speech prepared for delivery.

These would be the first two new universities to be built since democracy in 1994.

“We are determined that these new universities should take their place among the network of higher education institutions serving and expanding our national needs,” Zuma said.

The location of these new universities had caused friction, with residents in Barberton holding protests and demanding the Mpumalanga one be based in their town.

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