Vista University, South Africa was established in 1981 by the apartheid government to ensure that urban black South Africans seeking tertiary education would be accommodated within the townships rather than on campuses reserved for other population groups.
Its campuses were based in Bloemfontein, Daveyton (East Rand), Mamelodi, Port Elizabeth, Sebokeng, Soweto and Welkom. The Administrative head office 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.
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,
- the University of the Free State,
- the University of Johannesburg,
- the University of Pretoria,
- the University of South Africa (VUDEC) and
- the Vaal University of Technology.
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