2016
2014 On 20 October, Wits announces receipt of R100m from a single benefactor. R10m is allocated to the Wits Art Museum and the remainder to advancing research and teaching.
The Phillip V. Tobias Health Sciences Building in Parktown officially opens on 29 October.
Tshimologong
2015
Construction of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital begins on the Wits Education Campus.
Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct opens in Braamfontein. It is an enabling space to develop new digital technologies.
Wits launches Digital Campus, an online learning platform.
eZone
2017 Wits physicists are part of the international observation of signals produced by the collision of two neutron stars. Southern Centre for Inequality Studies launched. Wits launches the eZone, a place to explore eLearning.
2018
Dr Judy Dlamini is installed as Chancellor, the first woman in the role. Wits doctors transplant part of an HIV-positive mother’s liver into her HIVnegative child Wits completes a Digitisation Centre to preserve resources, widen access to research and support digital learning Campus gets a biometric access system and upgraded gateways
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