The University of Fort Hare is a public university in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
It was an important university for black Africans from 1916 to 1959.
Motto | In lumine tuo videbimus lumen ("In your light we shall see the light") |
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Type | Public university |
Established | 1916 |
Chancellor | Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza |
Vice-Chancellor | Sakhela Buhlungu |
Students | 13,331 (2015) |
Location | , , 32°47′13.4″S 26°50′56.7″E / 32.787056°S 26.849083°E |
Website | http://www.ufh.ac.za/ |
It offered a Western-style, academically excellent education to students from across sub-Saharan Africa, creating a black African elite. Nelson Mandela studied at the university during his early years before leading a group of students on a political strike and getting expelled.
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