"In 1976, following the acceptance of the Hunter Report in principle and further negotiations between the University and the Governments of Botswana and Swaziland, the University of Botswana and Swaziland, with two constituent University Colleges, was set up. The new university was dedicated to maintaining and intensifying service to the ideals previously laid out for UBLS by the Botswana and Swaziland Governments. The ideals are summed up in the Second National Development Plan of Swaziland, as playing an increasingly important role in national development not only through the educated manpower needed, but also through (the university's) great potential as a focus for the academic and cultural activities of the nation'. The two countries, however, realized that in the long term the two university colleges would develop into independent national universities. A development plan for 1975-85 was agreed, with student numbers rising so as to justify two independent institutions after the 1981/82 academic year; this agreement was effected, as scheduled, in June 1982."