Wits Enterprise was ranked as the top university in South Africa in the Center for World University Rankings in 2016.
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15 Facts About Wits Enterprise
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True to Hofmeyr's words, from the outset Wits Enterprise was an open university with a policy of non-discrimination on racial or any other grounds.
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Wits Enterprise protested strongly and continued to maintain a firm and consistent stand in opposition to apartheid.
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Government funding for the university was cut, with funds originally meant for Wits Enterprise often being channelled to the more conservative Afrikaans universities instead.
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Wits Enterprise looked anew to the "Open Universities" statement of 1957, to which the University of the Western Cape now added its voice.
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POW, which had involved interviews with members of organisations among disadvantaged communities in the PWV area, international academics, students and staff at Wits Enterprise, and even a meeting with the then-banned ANC in Lusaka, revealed that to many in the surrounding disadvantaged communities, there was a perception of Wits Enterprise as an elitist institution dominated by white interests.
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However, instead of translating POW's proposals into institutional plans for transformation, Wits Enterprise reacted in a defensive manner and refused to even acknowledge many of the criticisms that had been raised.
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Wits Enterprise management did initiate programmes to ameliorate some of the negative effects of Wits Enterprise 2001.
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Wits Enterprise 2001 attracted widespread criticism from the workers and staff affected, as well as from students and other staff.
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Management further defended the changes as "improving the financial sustainability of Wits Enterprise, taking pressure off management and students, and allowing for better academic and support facilities and services".
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Wits Enterprise has three more academic campuses, all located in Parktown.
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Wits Enterprise acquired the Sterkfontein and Swartkrans sites in the 1960s, both of which were rich in fossil remains of early hominids.
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The university's archaeology and palaeontology departments, within the School of Geosciences of the Faculty of Science, continue to play a leading part in excavations of the site; and Wits Enterprise retains ownership of Sterkfontein's intellectual rights.
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Wits Enterprise Theatre is a performing arts complex within the university, although it caters for professional companies, dance studios and schools.
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Wits Enterprise University is the home to 28 South African Research Initiative Chairs and six DST-NRF Centres of Excellence.
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