A new ranking has revealed the top universities in South Africa for 2026, with a familiar three institutions ranked best.

South African universites are comfortably the best in Africa, but there are major concerns over funding for local tertiary educations.

After a hitman tried to assassinate the vice-chancellor of Fort Hare University but ended up gunning down the academic’s bodyguard, in January 2023, South Africa’s police abducted and tortured a union ...

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has been confirmed as the leading university on the African continent across multiple ...

The University of Johannesburg has been ranked as sub-Saharan Africa’s best university, beating two historic rivals — the University of Pretoria and the University of the Witwatersrand — to the top ...

Seven years after apartheid ended here, student enrollment, even at what were all-white universities, has begun to reflect what the Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu dubbed the rainbow nation.

South African and Israeli media report that the student council at Durban University of Technology is demanding that “Jewish students, especially those who do not support the Palestinian struggle, ...

When students don’t understand the text of their essay, it’s a sign that they didn’t produce it. As academics and writing coaches we increasingly encounter students who, instead of requiring help with ...

MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa—The University of Johannesburg might have selected Joburg, rather than the bush, for the most recent Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research focused ...