Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is a result of the merger in 2004 between three prominent technikons: Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria.

With a 60 000-strong student body spread across Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North-West provinces, TUT’s campuses are located in Tshwane (Pretoria, Soshanguve, Ga-Rankuwa), Nelspruit and Polokwane. One of its key academic focuses is the economic and social development of the Southern African region.

In its quest to promote knowledge and technology, TUT provides the market with a career-focused workforce, and aims at making a significant contributiont to creating sustainable economic growth that will impact on the standard of living of all the region’s people.

Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT), formerly Mangosuthu Technikon, is a University of Technology on the outskirts of Durban, near Umlazi.

A Zulu-speaking university, MUT provides students with career orientated skills through a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the workplace. This is achieved through close co-operation with commerce and industry to ensure that the curriculum of a particular qualification is relevant to the chosen field, and that it is market related.

Theoretical studies and in-service training form part of the programmes. With three faculties (Engineering, Management Sciences and Natural Sciences) MUT has more than 3000 graduates province-wide, as well as from neighbouring states like Swaziland, Mozambique, Lesotho and Namibia.