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lin bundy said in defence of wits 2001 that t his fundamental reorganisation of both academic activities and support services will equip the university for the challenges of higher education in the 21st century 28 management issued a statement on 30 may 2000 responding to criticism of wits 2001 from the national education health and allied workers union nehawu the largest trade union among wits employees in which it defended wits 2001 as constituting the outsourcing of contracts for certain non core functions rather than any shift in ownership relations or governance contra nehawu s claims that it constituted privatisation management further defended the changes as improving the financial sustainability of wits taking pressure off management and students and allowing for better academic and support facilities and services 29 in 2001 the johannesburg college of education was incorporated into the university as wits education campus under the national department of education s plan to reform tertiary education in south africa 30 in 2003 a student mall called the matrix was opened in the student union building on east campus 31 the wits origins centre 32 was opened in 2006 by former president thabo mbeki and tells the story of life through its exhibitions this is alongside the wits fossil vault that houses thousands of plant animal and hominid fossils including the taung child little foot and homo naledi five capital projects were also completed over the next ten years the wits art museum 33 that is home to over 12 000 works of african art the wits science stadium an old athletics stadium converted into state of the art chemistry and physics labs on the west campus 34 the 4th quadrant of the chamber of mines building now called the arm building 35 the fnb building now the margo steele school of accountancy 36 and the wits school of public health building 37 in parktown in 2015 to 2016 the feesmustfall movement and protests resulted in intermittent disruptions of the academic programme for a few weeks at wits and other leading south african universities with students protesting for free education 38 from 2018 onwards stability returned to wits and the university continued to be ranked first or second on the continent for academic and research excellence in 2022 wits celebrated its centenary 39 which included saw the university raise r4 2 billion from donors and alumni as part of the centenary campaign 40 this included raising funds for infrastructure student support research and the academic project this included a r150 million endowment from wits alumnus natie kirsh for deserving missing middle students 41 the opening of the chris seabrooke music hall 42 the launch of the wits anglo american digital dome 43 and the reopening of the wits sterkfontein caves 44 amongst other projects coat of arms edit the badge of the south african school of mines the current coat of arms of the university was designed by professor g e pearse and edited by professor w d howie to correct heraldic inaccuracies before being accepted by the state herald of south africa in 1972 the design of the coat of arms incorporates a gold background in the upper section of the shield to represent the witwatersrand gold fields on which the mining industry that gave rise to the university is based along with an open book superimposed upon a cogwheel representing knowledge and industry the silver wavy bars on the lower section of the shield represent the vaal and limpopo rivers which form the northern and southern borders of the witwatersrand gold fields above the shield is the head of a kudu an antelope typical of the witwatersrand and the university s mascot the university s motto scientia et labore meaning through knowledge and work in latin appears just below the shield 45 the university s coat of arms evolved from the badge of the south african school of mines this badge consisted of a diamond with a shield superimposed upon it a prospector s pick and a sledgehammer overlaid with broken ore and a mill appeared on the shield the south african school of mines motto was the same as the university s current one and surrounded the shield 45 governance and administration edit as set out in the higher education act act no 101 of 1997 46 and in the statute of the university of the witwatersrand 47 the university is governed by council the chancellor of the university is the ceremonial head of the university who in the name of the university confers all degrees the current chancellor is dr judy dlamini who spearheads the female academic leadership fellows programme 48 the positions of principal and vice chancellor are merged with the vice chancellor and principal responsible for the day to day running of the university and accountable to council the current vice chancellor and principal is prof zeblon vilakazi a nuclear physicist who will lead wits until 2030 council is responsible for the selection of all vice chancellors deputy vice chancellors and deans of faculty 47 49 campuses edit main article campuses of the university of the witwatersrand the university spans 480 hectares and is divided into five academic campuses with the administration building on the braamfontein east campus across the de villiers graaff motorway lies the west campus the two are joined by a brick paved bridge across the highway called the sibanye stillwater bridge 50 east and west campus effectively form a single campus bordered by empire road to the north jan smuts avenue to the east jorissen street and enoch sontonga road to the south and annet road to the west the historic east campus is primarily the home of the faculties of science and humanities as well as solomon mahlangu house where the university s council senate and management meet west campus houses the faculties of engineering and the built environment and commerce law and management east campus is home to four residences namely men s res male sunnyside female international house mixed and jubilee hall female 51 west campus is home to david webster hall female barnato hall and west campus village both mixed 52 wits has three more academic campuses all located in parktown the wits education campus houses the wits school of education 53 within the faculty of humanities and boasts three female residences forming the highfield cluster namely girton medhurst and reith hall to the east of the wits education campus across york road lies the faculty of health sciences 54 that houses the wits medical school and the philip v tobias building which is the faculty s administration building to the west of the wits education campus across victoria avenue lies the wits management campus with the triple accredited wits business school 55 within the wits management campus are the ernest oppenheimer hall male residence and the mixed parktown village other residences include graduate lodge campus lodge south court noswal hall and braamfontein centre all in the city district of braamfontein and all mixed gender further there is the wits junction mixed and the knockando halls of residence a male residence located on the grounds of a parktown mansion called northwards in parktown sites edit provincial heritage sites and heritage objects edit the university of the witwatersrand houses two provincial heritage sites and two heritage objects the great hall technically the façade of the robert sobukwe building formerly known as central block in which the great hall is located 56 and the dias cross housed in the william cullen library 57 are both provincial heritage sites they were formerly national monuments until 1 april 2000 when the national monuments council was replaced by a new system which made former national monuments the responsibility of provincial governments following the passage of the national heritage resources act 58 the heritage objects are jan smuts study housed in jan smuts house 59 and the paul loewenstein collection of rock art 60 all of the university s national heritage sites and objects are located on east campus wits institute of social and economic research wiser edit sarah nuttall about wiser the university of the witwatersrand is home to the wits institute of social and economic research wiser founded in 2001 by deborah posel 61 cradle of humankind edit main article cradle of humankind homo naledi discovered by a wits based team of palaeontologists working in the cradle of humankind wits acquired the sterkfontein and swartkrans sites in the 1960s both of which were rich in fossil remains of early hominids 1 in 1999 the area was declared a world heritage site by unesco as the cradle of humankind as a world heritage site responsibility for the site shifted from the university to the government of gauteng province with the provincial government becoming the designated management authority responsible for developing and protecting the site it is aided by the south african heritage resources agency which has also declared the area a national heritage site 62 the university s evolutionary studies institute within the faculty of science continues to play a leading part in excavations of the site and wits retains ownership of sterkfontein and its intellectual rights 63 professor lee berger discovered australopithecus sediba 2010 and homo naledi 2015 at the site 64 65 the wits sterkfontein caves reopened to the public in 2025 where dr ron clarke excavated little foot the fossil museums edit the origins centre museum from across the m1 this section does not cite any sources please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed december 2025 learn how and when to remove this message wits university hosts nine museums several of which are open to the public these include the origins centre that tells the story of life 32 the wits art museum 33 which houses 12 000 works of african art including the jack ginsberg book collection the adler museum of medicine 66 on the health sciences campus in parktown the fossil vault which houses the taung child little foot homo naledi and various dinosaur fossils and other faunal and floral fossil collections wits is also home to the geosciences museum 67 and the oppenheimer life sciences museum 68 some museums like the hunterian museum and the gynaecological museum are not open to the public and are used for teaching purposes only johannesburg planetarium now the wits anglo american digital dome edit main article johannesburg planetarium the johannesburg planetarium was the first full sized planetarium in africa and the second in the southern hemisphere it was originally bought by the johannesburg municipality to be set up as part of the celebration of the city s seventieth anniversary after acquiring an old projector from the hamburg planetarium which was modernised before being shipped to south africa the municipality sold the projector to the university for use as both an academic facility for the instruction of students and as a public amenity plans for a new building to house the projector were first drawn up in 1958 and construction began in 1959 the planetarium finally opened on 12 october 1960 69 the johannesburg planetarium was often consulted by the media and the public in order to explain unusual occurrences in the skies over south africa 70 71 in 2010 the johannesburg planetarium celebrated its golden jubilee 72 the planetarium was closed and was transformed into a digital dome which opened its doors to the public in february 2025 the planetarium was renamed to the wits anglo american digital dome 43 wits art museum edit the museum s collection started in the 1950s 73 in 1972 the gertrude posel gallery was established on the ground floor of senate house on east campus it was joined in 1992 by the studio gallery which formed the lower gallery reserved for the display of african art the galleries collections grew steadily 73 wits theatre edit main article wits theatre complex the wits theatre is a performing arts complex within the university 74 it is run by the wits school of arts prior to the opening of the wits theatre the wits schools of dramatic art and music had been staging productions in a building on campus called the nunnery a former convent the nunnery has been retained as a teaching venue 74 a new building the wits seabrooke music hall 75 was built alongside and was opened in 2022 wits centre for diversity studies wicds edit main article wits centre for diversity studies the wits centre for diversity studies wicds was established in 2014 at the university of witwatersrand it is based in the faculty of humanities and aims to build capacity to meet the challenges of diverse societies especially in post apartheid south africa through interdisciplinary postgraduate education and research 76 academics edit faculties edit the university consists of five faculties commerce law and management engineering and the built environment health sciences humanities and science 77 comprising 33 schools libraries edit the wartenweiler library on the south eastern side of the library lawns on east campus the university of the witwatersrand library service consists of two main libraries the warteinweiler and william cullen libraries on east campus and 12 branch libraries the wartenweiler library primarily serves the faculty of humanities it also contains the library administration library computer services and technical services departments as well as the short loan collection the reference collection inter library loans department the multimedia library and the education and training department as well as the electronic classroom 78 the william cullen library contains the africana collection specialising in social political and economic history it also contains the early and fine printed books collection which includes the incunabula books printed before 1501 finally it also contains a collection of government publications and journals in the arts humanities and social sciences 79 reputation and ranking edit see also rankings of universities in south africa university rankings global overall arwu world 80 301 400 2023 qs world 81 291 2026 the world 82 301 350 2024 usnwr global 83 244 2023 regional overall qs brics 84 40 2019 the africa 85 2 2021 the brics 86 11 2020 usnwr africa 87 2 2021 university of the witwatersrand world ranking the matrix student centre a pond by the gavin relly green on west campus in 2019 wits was ranked 201 300 globally and second nationally in the academic ranking of world universities arwu commonly known as the shanghai ranking in the 2019 2020 centre for world university rankings cwur wits was ranked no 254 globally top 1 3 in the world in the 2019 us news best global universities rankings wits was ranked second in africa and no 197 globally with a global score of 59 9 wits ranked no 194 globally in the 2020 times higher education world university rankings 4 the 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