Vista University 2664177 201361371 2008-03-27T17:08:25Z SmackBot 433328 Date the maintenance tags or general fixes [[Image:vista.gif|right|thumb]] [[Vista University]], [[South Africa]] was established in 1981 <ref>[http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=236618 Business Day - News Worth Knowing<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> by the [[apartheid]] government to ensure that urban black South Africans seeking [[tertiary education]] would be accommodated within the [[Township (South Africa)|townships]] rather than on campuses reserved for other population groups <ref>http://www.careerexpo.co.za/viewinstitution.asp?code=114&con_code=33</ref>. Its campuses were based in [[Bloemfontein]][http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=373337], [[Daveyton]] (East Rand), [[Mamelodi]], [[Port Elizabeth]], [[Sebokeng]], [[Soweto]] and [[Welkom]]. The Administrative head office <ref>http://digbib.iuk.hdm-stuttgart.de/epub/volltexte/2003/317/pdf/Rincker.pdf</ref> and the Distance Education Campus were located in [[Pretoria]]. Vista University’s Distance Education Campus (VUDEC) allowed students to study full or part-time through correspondence <ref>[http://www.education.gov.za/teli2/policydocuments/distance7b.htm]{{Dead link|date=March 2008}}</ref>. The university has since been closed. Its facilities and some members of staff have been merged into other universities, including: * the [[Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University]] <ref>[http://www.nmmu.ac.za/Default.asp?bhcp=1 Engaged, People-centred Tertiary Education at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, * the [[University of the Free State]] <ref>[http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=1150825 The Times - Interact with us<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, * the [[University of Johannesburg]] <ref>[http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=974816 Business Day - News Worth Knowing<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, * the [[University of Pretoria]] <ref>[http://152.111.1.251/argief/berigte/beeld/2005/07/22/B1/13/02.html Beeld, Vrydag 22 Julie 2005, p. 13: Tukkies dink oor Mamelodi se lot<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, * the [[University of South Africa]] <ref>http://www.unisa.ac.za/contents/docs/vudecincorp.19112003.pdf</ref> and * the [[Vaal University of Technology]] <ref>[http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/education/universities.htm South Africa's universities - SouthAfrica.info<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. ==Prominent staff members== *Paul Avis (deceased), 1970s professional tennis player, and clinical psychologist *[[Mark Behr]], author *Kagiso Chikane, wife of [[Frank Chikane]] *Sipho Seepe, political analyst ==References== <references/> [[Category:Defunct universities and colleges in South Africa]] [[Category:Distance education in South Africa]] [[Category:Educational institutions established in 1981]] [[Category:Defunct South African organisations]] [[Category:Organizations associated with apartheid]]