Sol Plaatje University Contact Details

Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley answers on 053 491 0000. It has three campuses, all in Kimberley, and applications are handled by each faculty rather than by a central admissions office. We read this on spu.ac.za on 24 September 2026.

Official contact details

Switchboard	053 491 0000
Student recruitment	053 491 0600 or 053 491 0702
Student recruitment email	studentrecruitment@spu.ac.za
Website	spu.ac.za

The three campuses

Campus	Address
Central Campus	24-26 Scanlan Street, New Park, Kimberley, 8301
North Campus	10 Jan Smuts Boulevard, Civic Centre, Kimberley, 8300
South Campus	150 Reservoir Road, New Park, Kimberley, 8301

Take care with these. Central Campus and South Campus are both in New Park and share the postal code 8301, so a postal code alone will not tell you which one you want. The street names are what distinguish them: Scanlan Street for Central, Reservoir Road for South.

North Campus is the outlier, on Jan Smuts Boulevard at the Civic Centre, with its own code of 8300.

All three are within Kimberley itself. SPU has no campus in any other town, so there is nothing in Upington, Springbok or De Aar.

Applications go to your faculty, not to admissions

This is the part that wastes the most time, because most universities run a single admissions office and SPU does not.

SPU publishes a separate telephone number and email address for each of its four faculties. You need to know which faculty your programme sits in before you make contact.

Faculty	Telephone	Applications email
Education	053 491 0450	EDU_Applications@spu.ac.za
Economic and Management Sciences	053 491 0157	EMS_Applications@spu.ac.za
Humanities	053 491 0030	HUM_Applications@spu.ac.za
Natural and Applied Sciences	053 491 0094	NAS_Applications@spu.ac.za

The mailboxes follow a strict pattern: a three-letter faculty code, then an underscore, then Applications with a capital A. Get the underscore or the capital wrong and the message may not arrive.

Every faculty number is an extension on the same 053 491 0 block as the switchboard, so if a direct line does not answer you can reach the same place through 053 491 0000.

If you do not know your faculty yet

Start with student recruitment, on 053 491 0600 or 053 491 0702, or at studentrecruitment@spu.ac.za.

That is the right route for a prospective student who is still choosing, or who wants to know whether they meet the admission requirements. It is the only contact point SPU publishes that is not tied to a specific faculty or function.

SPU’s four faculties are Economic and Management Sciences, Education, Humanities, and Natural and Applied Sciences. The university describes its focus areas as teacher education, ICT and data science, heritage studies, palaeo-sciences and creative writing in African languages.

Funding and tuition quotations

SPU does publish contacts for funding and for tuition quotations, but it lists them as named members of staff with individual direct lines and personal work addresses rather than as a departmental mailbox.

We have not reproduced those here. Individual staff contacts change when people move on, and a list like that goes stale quickly.

Call 053 491 0000 and ask for financial aid, or for tuition quotations, and you will be put through to whoever currently holds the role. If you would rather have the current names, they are on the contact page at spu.ac.za.

Other things SPU publishes separately

Several common queries have their own section of the website rather than a telephone number, and going straight there is faster than the switchboard.

Jobs are advertised under Vacancies, with a current-jobs listing linked from every page. Suppliers have a Tenders section, and there is a separate Legal section.

Prospective students will find the admission requirements, how to apply, postgraduate studies and financial aid pages under Study@SPU, along with the 2027 prospectus and the academic calendar.

Before you call

Have your student number if you are already registered, or your identity number and the programme you are asking about if you are not.

One small warning about the website. The address spu.ac.za/index.php/contact-us does not lead to the university’s general contact page. It resolves to the contact page for SPU’s Arid Region Water Research Centre instead. The general contact page is at spu.ac.za/index.php/contact-spu.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Sol Plaatje University contact number?

The numbers listed on this page for Sol Plaatje University are 053 491 0000 (Switchboard), 053 491 0600 (Student recruitment) and 053 491 0450 (Education).

What is the Sol Plaatje University email address?

The email address listed on this page is studentrecruitment@spu.ac.za (Student recruitment email).

How do I know these Sol Plaatje University details are correct?

We only list details read from the official website or channels of Sol Plaatje University, and this page shows the date they were checked. Confirm on the official site before you share personal information or make a payment.

Sources

• Sol Plaatje University contact page, spu.ac.za/index.php/contact-spu, for the switchboard, the three campus addresses, the four faculty application telephone numbers and mailboxes, and the student recruitment numbers and mailbox (read 24 September 2026)
• Sol Plaatje University home page, for the switchboard, the faculty list and the university’s stated focus areas (read 24 September 2026)
• A direct check of spu.ac.za/index.php/contact-us, which resolved to the Arid Region Water Research Centre contact page (checked 24 September 2026)