Sol Plaatje University is a public university located in Kimberley, South Africa. Established in 2014, it is the first and only university located in the Northern Cape province.
Sol Plaatje University (SPU) opened in 2014, the first of two new universities to be established in post-apartheid South Africa. It is also the first university to be established in the Northern Cape Province.
Positioning itself as a niche university, SPU offers academic programs of a high intellectual nature in fields that meet the needs of the South African thrust to develop a nation that is proud of its heritage and roots.
In developing the focus for its academic disciplines, SPU has looked to the unique needs, competence, and characteristics of the Northern Cape region.
This approach brought the current focus areas of teacher education, ICT and data science, heritage studies, paleosciences, and creative writing in African languages to the fore.
