For the non-academic there’s no pressing reason to visit the University of Cape Town, but it’s nonetheless an impressive place to walk around. UCT presents a fairly cohesive architectural front, with ivy-covered neoclassical facades and a fine set of stone steps leading to the temple-like Jameson Hall.
If you approach UCT from Woolsack Dr, you’ll pass the Woolsack , a cottage designed in 1900 by Sir Herbert Baker for Cecil Rhodes; it’s now a student residence. (It’s said that Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem 'If' during his residence here between 1900 and 1907.)
