Empowering a legacy of Black excellence.

Having been established in 1829 (more than 180 years ago), UCT functioned as a "Whites Only" institution and only admitting its first small group of blacks in 1920. The number of black students remained very low until towards the latter part of the 1980s, when the institution, reading the signs of change in the country, committed itself to a deliberate and planned process of internal transformation.