University of Natal

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The University of Natal was a university in Natal, and later KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was founded in 1910 as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg, and expanded to include a campus in Durban in 1931. In 1947, the university opened a medical school for non-white students in Durban. Under apartheid, the university was known for the activism of its staff and students against government-imposed racial segregation. On 1 January 2004, the university was merged with the University of Durban-Westville to form the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Steve Biko, non-violent anti-apartheid activist^[1]
• Colin Bundy, Warden, Green College, Oxford; Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of London
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party
• Phillip Clancey, leading expert on South African ornithology
• Sheila Cussons, poet
• Lev David, writer, radio producer/presenter and media consultant
• Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Foreign Affairs in South Africa
• John Eppel, award winning novelist, poet, short story writer
• Christopher Forsyth, Professor of Public Law, Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge University, co-author with Sir William Wade of leading textbook Administrative Law
• Adrian Furnham, organizational and applied psychologist and management expert
• John Hlophe, Judge President of the Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa
• Mazisi Kunene, poet
• Ramon Leon QC, Judge of the High Court of South Africa and of the Appeal Courts of Lesotho and Swaziland
• David Lewis-Williams, is Professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art.
• Douglas Livingstone, contemporary poet
• Lara Logan, television journalist for CBS News
• Colin Moss, actor
• Fatima Meer, writer, academic and anti-apartheid activist
• Frank Mdlalose, first premier of KwaZulu-Natal
• Sandile Ngcobo, Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
• D.J. Opperman, Afrikaans poet
• David Papineau, academic philosopher
• Alan Paton, author, Cry, The Beloved Country
• Pat Pillai, presenter e.tv News
• Marguerite Poland, novelist
• Shaun Pollock, former South African cricketer
• Jonty Rhodes, former South African cricketer
• John Traicos, former South African and Zimbabwean cricketer
• Mamphela Ramphele, academic, businesswoman, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist
• Leon Sandler Executive Director Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sydney Skaife, entomologist, naturalist and conservationist
• William Smith, television mathematics and science teacher
• Barbara Trapido, novelist
• John van de Ruit, novelist, actor, playwright and producer
• Trevor Wadley, electrical engineer and inventor of the Wadley Loop
• Alan Whiteside, AIDS researcher and author

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