A day in the life at the University of Pretoria. 02 February 2008.

02 February 2008: On this "Day in the life of the University of Pretoria" the ABSA Tuks Stadium was inaugurated.

 Tartan athletics track on LC de Villiers © UP Archives

The UP Sports Campus (the LC de Villiers Sports Grounds) is one of the most extensive sports complex in South Africa. The hpc (High Performance Centre) was added in 2002. From 2002 onwards a number of new facilities were added to the Sports Campus. These included a new astro hockey turf, three clubhouses, four new tennis courts, floodlights for four football fields and for most of the tennis courts, as well as the upgrading and heating of the swimming pool complex. Approval and funding for a new tartan athletics track (pictured above) to be built in 2005 was also secured, and the official inauguration of the Absa Tuks Stadium Complex took place on 2 February 2008. The positive impact that this complex had on Tuks Sport was recorded in the student newspaper the Perdeby of February 2008.

Perdeby, 02 February 2008 © UP Archives

The University of Pretoria ARchives (UPA) preserves the history of the University of Pretoria. We have an extensive photo collection and complete print set of the  Perdeby (now PDBY). The volumes of the University’s history captured in Ad Destinatium i-v also forms part of our collection. Please contact us on [email protected] to share your memories of Tukkies or access our collection virtually.