CUT is the Central University of Technology, Free State, with its seat in Bloemfontein and a second campus in Welkom. The contact details below were read from cut.ac.za on 2 September 2026.
Official contact channels
- Bloemfontein Campus: 051 507 3911
- Welkom Campus: 057 910 3500
- Correspondence: The Registrar, Central University of Technology, Free State, Private Bag X20539, Bloemfontein 9300
All written correspondence goes to the Registrar in Bloemfontein, including anything about Welkom. CUT gives one postal address for the whole university – a letter addressed to the Welkom campus has no postal address to go to.
CUT publishes no general enquiries email address on its contact page. It routes written questions through an Ask CUT facility and lists contacts by category – faculties, academic administration, assessment and graduation, finances, HR, residences and the Wellness Centre among them.
Services and responsibilities
CUT is a university of technology with four faculties: Humanities; Health and Environmental Sciences; Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology; and Management Sciences. Each publishes its own contacts under the contact-by-category section.
Safety lines are published per campus, and the university separates its after-hours numbers from its hotlines:
- Protection Services hotline, Bloemfontein: 0800 0600 60 or 051 507 3237
- Protection Services hotline, Welkom: 0800 0600 61
- Protection Services after hours, Bloemfontein: 051 507 4417
- Protection Services after hours, Welkom: 057 910 3799
CUT also lists Emergency Medical Services on 051 407 6000 and the Disaster Management Centre on 051 409 9600. Note that these two are municipal emergency services, not university departments – CUT lists them for convenience, and calling them about a campus matter will not reach the university.
Separate reporting channels exist for sexual harassment and gender-based violence and for whistleblowing, both linked from the site footer. These are deliberately kept apart from the general switchboard.
Office and address information
- Bloemfontein Campus: 20 President Brand Street, Westdene, Bloemfontein 9300 – main entrance at 1 Park Road, Westdene
- Welkom Campus: 1 Mothusi Road, Welkom 9460
The Bloemfontein street address and the entrance you actually drive into are different. The campus is addressed at 20 President Brand Street but CUT directs visitors to the main entrance at 1 Park Road – use Park Road for navigation.
Welkom is 160km northeast of Bloemfontein in the Free State goldfields – a separate town, not a nearby annexe. Downloadable campus maps are published for both, and buildings are tagged on Google Maps.
Applications and escalation
CUT publishes an application cycle by year – check the current cycle page for opening and closing dates before applying, because applications outside the cycle are not considered.
Escalate an academic matter through the department, then the faculty, then Academic Administration, keeping your student number and dates. Formal complaints and appeals go to the Registrar at the postal address above.
Beyond the university, a complaint about a public higher education institution goes to the Department of Higher Education and Training, maladministration to the Public Protector, and an NSFAS decision to NSFAS.
Sources
- cut.ac.za contact page, read 2 September 2026