ML Sultan is located in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and has now merged with

Technikon Natal Technikon Natal is located in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and has now merged with ML Sultan Technikon to form the Durban University of Technology. History Technikon Natal was founded by Dr Samuel George Campbell in 1907. In 1912, th ...

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Durban University of Technology The Durban University of Technology (DUT) is a multi-campus university situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was formed in 2002 following the merger of Technikon Natal and ML Sultan Technikon and it was initially known as the Durban Instit ...

History

The institution was named after Mohammed Lappa Sultan who donated funds in 1941 to establish a technical college in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). This institute provided educational opportunities to “non-white”Leonard Leslie Bessant: ''Sultan, M.L.''. in Lawrence Henry Ofosu-Appiah (ed.) et al.: ''Encyclopaedia Africana. Dictionary of African Biography''. Vol. 3, Reference Publications, Algonac (MI) 1995, pp. 228–229 people that had previously not been available in the region. In 1946, the Minister declared the ML Sultan Technical College an approved institution for Higher Education, in terms of the Higher Education act of 1923. On August 7, 1956, the ML Sultan Technical College was officially opened. In May 1979, the status of the college was changed to that of a Technikon. In April 2002, ML Sultan merged with Technikon Natal to form the Durban Institute of Technology which in 2004, was renamed the

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