Province

Gauteng

Although Gauteng accounts for only 1.5% of the country's land area, it is home to more than a quarter of its population (26%).

Highly urbanised, the province contains the country's largest city, Johannesburg, which is also one of the largest cities in the world and the financial hub of not only South Africa but the entire African continent.

Focus currently has ministry groups and activities at the following university campuses in Gauteng.

01

University of the Witwatersrand

The University of the Witwatersrand is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University or Wits and it has its roots in the mining industry. Founded in 1896 as the South African School of Mines in Kimberley, it is the third oldest South African university in continuous operation.

02

University of Johannesburg

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a public university that came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University. UJ has a student population of over 50 000, of which more than 3000 are international students from 80 countries.

03

EDUVOS

Eduvos - Midrand (formerly Pearson Institute of Higher Education and Midrand Graduate Institute) is a South African private higher education institution based in Midrand, Gauteng Province. It offers bachelor's degrees in commerce, information technology, law, social sciences, creative arts, communications and science

04

University of Pretoria

The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg-based Transvaal University College and is the fourth South African institution in continuous operation to be awarded university status. The university has grown from the original 32 students in a single late Victorian house to approximately 53,000 in 2019