Background: UKZN

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is an institution that has five separate campuses situated of the KwaZulu-Natal province (KZN) in South Africa.  It was formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Natal and the University of Durban Westville. The diversity of students, academics and staff is the heart of the University’s vision of being the premier university of African scholarship. The university mission is to be a truly South African university that is academically excellent, innovative in research, critically engaged with society and demographically representative, redressing the disadvantages, inequities and imbalances of the past. MEPI is one positive initiative in that direction.