Technikon

A technikon was a post-secondary institute of technology (polytech) in South Africa.

[7] Mergers and reorganisations were announced in 2002, drastically reducing the number of technikons.

[8] By 2006, after a process to transform the nation's "higher education landscape", there were no technikons left.

The seven white technikons include the 'big four' (Cape, Pretoria, Witwatersrand and Natal), which had the most students (6000–11000 in 1991).

The other white technikons were Free State, Port Elizabeth, and Vaal Triangle.

[9] Three technikons were created in bantustans; these had the lowest enrollments: Border (Ciskei), Eastern Cape (Transkei), and North-West (initially named Setlogelo; in Bophuthatswana).