He went on to become the superintendent of Umtata Hospital and assist with the development of the medical faculty.[45] It was only in 1985, with establishment of the Medical School at the
University of Transkei, that a 14-bed unit for mentally ill patients was created at the Umtata Hospital.
Both departing men have been at the heart of medical education in South Africa--Ncayiyana pioneering rural-based medical mentoring and training while Dean of Medicine and Vice-Chancellor at the former Unitra University (
University of Transkei, now Walter Sisulu University) and Van Niekerk chairing Education and the Foreign Qualified Doctors Committees of the Health Professions Council of South Africa and deputising the Impaired Doctors committee.
Families, the Journal of Social Psychology,
University of Transkei, V.
The Nelson Mandela Drive (NMD) campus of the University which was previously known as the
University of Transkei currently has a student enrollment of over 5,500 out of 25,000 student population in the three major campuses after the merger of the former Boarder Technikon, and the Eastern Cape Technikon with the former
University of Transkei in 2002.
Incentive-driven research at the
University of Transkei. Research in Education, 61(May), 49-53.
** Faculty of Economic Sciences
University of Transkei Eastern Cape, South Africa
The latter is located in the hospital premises, the teaching hospital of the
University Of Transkei Medical School in Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
He also takes issue with demands that all universities should mirror the racial and multi-cultural demography of the country since these demands are inconsistent in, for example, not requiring that the largely Xhosa population of the
University of Transkei should incorporate more Zulu speakers, Cape Town more Afrikaans speakers or the HBU's more whites.(12) While it is a muted or rarely articulated plank in the transformation platform, Sasco has, in fact, employed the demographic mirror argument to call for more white students to enroll at the HBU's, a call which has a less than remote chance of finding a receptive audience.(13)
but so recently the Internet guru at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.; a paper on undergraduate conversations on the Internet from Iolanda Cortelazzo from Brazil; a paper and workshop from Phil Moore, (who used to be on my staff so he must be good, but who now works for British Telecom's Internet "CampusWorld" Project); a paper and a workshop on the Canadian "SchoolNet" program from Gerald McConaghy; and a paper on the Internet projects that have linked South Africa and North Carolina from Thozi Nomvete of the
University of Transkei.
"The whole system has placed women in an inferior position," says Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a clinical psychologist and professor at the
University of Transkei. She emphasizes that women have responsibility for the home, not just financially but also in terms of maintenance.
Founded as a faculty of the
University of Transkei in 1985, the medical school began with little or no academic staff or teaching facilities.