Legal status

Auckland Park Theological Seminary NPC (“ATS”, for short) is a non-profit organisation (“NPO”) with Public Benefit Organisation (“PBO”) (930076144) status and is engaged in theological training and education.

Auckland Park Theological Seminary NPC is registered as a private higher education institution (Reg. certificate 2020/HE08/001) with the Department of Higher Education (South Africa) in terms of section 54(3) of the Act and Regulation 14(4)(b)(i) to offer its academic programmes.

Chief Executive Officer: Prof WJ Hattingh (ATS Principal)
Management Board Chairman: Mr GJ Smith


Verification of legal status:

  1. View Auckland Park Theological Seminary NPC’s Registration Certificate as a private higher education institution.
  2. You can verify Auckland Park Theological Seminary NPC’s status on the Department of Higher Education’s official Register of Private Higher Education Institutions on dhet.gov.za. (Find and click on the Register of Private Higher Institutions link to load the Pdf. Then find “Auckland Park Theological Seminary”.)

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