Breda University of Applied Sciences Breda University of Applied Sciences Breda University of Applied Sciences is a vocational university in Breda, Netherlands. It was founded in 1966 with the merger of two educational institutions. Since, the university has increased in the number of staff, students and programmes offered. According to the annual report in 2017 there were 7,398 students from over 70 countries studying in the university in different types of programmes offered both in English and Dutch. In 1966 vocational university Nederlands Wetenschappelijk Instituut voor Toerisme (NWIT) was founded in Breda. It offered bachelor programmes in tourism and leisure and in this field, it
Michiel van Breda Michiel van Breda Michiel van Breda, a South African, was a Merino farmer, founder of Bredasdorp, Mayor of Cape Town and a South African Freemason. Van Breda was born on 12 August 1775 in Cape Town. His parents were Pieter van Breda and Catharina Sophia Myburg. He married three times. Out of his marriages with Gesina van Reenen, Beatrix Elizabeth Lategan and Maria Adriana Smalberger he became the father of nine children. He died in Cape Town on 12 August 1847. In 1817 van Breda was farming on Zoetendals Vallei farm in the region which is today called Overberg. He