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TheSouth African College was an educational institution inCape Town,South Africa, which developed into theUniversity of Cape Town (UCT) and theSouth African College Schools (SACS).
The process that would lead to the formation of the South African College was started in 1791, when theDutchCommissioner-General,Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, asked for money to be set aside to improve the schools in the Cape. When theBritish took over the control of theCape Colony, under the first governor,Lord Charles Henry Somerset, permission was given for the money set aside by de Mist to be used to establish the South African College.
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The founding committee met in theGroote Kerk to discuss funding and accommodation for the school on 1 October 1829.[1] That year, the school opened. DiplomatEdmund Roberts visited the college in 1833. He noted that onlywealthy young men attended the school and that classes were offered in bothEnglish andDutch languages.[2]The original location of the school was in the Weeshuis onLong Street and moved to what is now known as theEgyptian Building (on the Hiddingh Campus ofUCT) in theGardens district of Cape Town in 1841.
It was decided in 1874 that the younger students should be separated from their older counterparts. The South African College was separated into the college, which became theUniversity of Cape Town; and theCollege Schools.
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