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WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE

• The faculty of engineering at Stellenbosch ◊ Below: University of Stellenbosch
University was established in 1944 and is housed ◊ Below Centre: Cape Peninsula University of Technology
in a large complex of buildings with modern facilities.
The faculty has approximately 3 400 students of
whom approximately 2 600 are undergraduate
and 800 post-graduate. This university has major
research activities and works with the likes of the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Model studies for a number of the new harbour
facilities in South Africa were carried out here in the
form of working models. They are also well known for
environmental engineering studies.

33°52’52.58” S, 18°37’35.29” E

• The Cape Peninsula University of Technology
was established in 2005 and has roots that go back
to two tertiary institutions of the early 1900s known
as the Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon.
Currently about 30 000 students enrol here annually.
The engineering faculty has links that stretch all the
way to Europe and in particular The Netherlands.

33°55’59.27” S, 18°38’15.25” E
publication like this it is impossible to give credit to
all of these and therefore the reader is encouraged to
28. Mountain passes in this province are acquire the popular and beautiful book, Romance of the
plentiful and world renowned for their beauty and Cape Mountain Passes by Dr Graham Ross. Many others
the fascinating stories on how these were built. In a that do not feature in his book can be found by merely

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