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Edwin Ekwevukugbe Etieyibo is a Nigerian-Canadian (Afro-Canadian) philosopher dedicated to advancing African philosophy.He is an advocate of the validity of ethnophilosophy.
Herman Wits (1636–1708), Dutch theologian; Bidvest Wits F.C., a South African football club; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; WITS (AM), an AM radio station in Sebring, Florida
The University Wits, on leaving their universities faced the Elizabethan problem discussed by Francis Bacon in his essay, "Of Seditions and Troubles" — schools were producing more scholars than there were opportunities. The University Wits found employment in theatre, not their first choice, but there was little else for them.
Lucas Malan was born in Nylstroom, where he also started school before matriculating at Pietersburg Hoërskool in 1963. Starting in 1964 he majored in Afrikaans and Art History at Normaal Kollege, Pretoria (now part of University of Pretoria), completing his B.A. degree in 1966 and Higher Education Diploma in 1967.
Within 10 years, the town was the largest in South Africa, growing faster than Cape Town, which was more than 200 years older. The gold rush saw massive development of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand, and the area today is the prime metropolitan area of South Africa.
Webster was active in the political anti-apartheid movement, especially in the 1980s for the Detainees' Parents' Support Committee, an organisation advocating the release of political detainees held without trial in South Africa. [1] His brother Eddie Webster, was a sociologist in Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, Wits. [2] [3]
5 Wits is a chain entertainment venue that builds interactive adventure experiences with seven locations in the United States.The experiences have growing similarities with escape rooms, but are essentially meant for replayability, without puzzle solving under a fixed amount of time or difficulty restrictions.
The World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) is a trade software provided by the World Bank for users to query several international trade databases.. WITS allows the user to query trade statistics (export, import, re-exports and re-imports) from the UN's repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables (UN COMTRADE), tariff and non-tariff measures data from ...