potchefstroom city

Potchefstroom is an academic city in the North West Province of South Africa. It hosts the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University. It is situated on the banks of the Mooi River (Afrikaans for "pretty (or beautiful) river"), roughly 120 km (75 mi) west-southwest of Johannesburg and 45 km (28 mi) east-northeast of Klerksdorp.

Motto: City of Expertise  /  Motswe Wa Boitseanape
Stad van Deskundigheid

Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African 70.7% 
• Coloured 7.1% 
• Indian/Asian 1.0% 
• White 20.7% 
• Other 0.4%

First languages (2011)
• Tswana 41.1% 
• Afrikaans 27.9% 
• Sotho 10.9% 
• Xhosa 9.5% 
• Other 10.6%

http://www.potch.co.za/

NWU Potchefstroom campus

The Campus, situated in the historical university town of Potchefstroom, traditionally drew its students from the Afrikaans-speaking community but today embraces a multilingual, multicultural working and teaching environment. For the benefit of non-Afrikaans students, for example, real-time educational classroom interpreting services are used in academic programmes regarded as key to the development of the South African economy. This has contributed to the ongoing growth of the Potchefstroom Campus, which had 44 961 students in 2015, including 28 333 students enrolled for distance learning programmes.