Higher Education department of South Africa announces Guateng's aim to open new university in 2015.

23 May 2014 And finally, the higher education department of South Africa has announced that Gauteng is to open a new health and allied sciences university in 2015

Higher education Minister Blade Nzimande announced that the name of the new university would be the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, after Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, second president of the African National Congress.

The new university will be merged with the Medical University of Southern Africa campus in Garankuwa, Pretoria.