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| Motto | In lumine tuo videbimus lumen ("In your light we shall see the light"), from Psalm 36 |
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| Type | Public university |
| Established | 1916 |
| Chancellor | Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza |
| Vice-Chancellor | Sakhela Buhlungu[1] |
| Students | 13,331 (2015) |
| Location | , , 32°47′15″S 26°50′51″E / 32.78750°S 26.84750°E |
| Colors | Blue White Yellow |
| Website | www |
The University of Fort Hare (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Fort Hare) is a public university in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
It was a key institution of higher education for Africans from 1916 to 1959 when it offered a Western-style academic education to students from across sub-Saharan Africa, creating an African elite. Fort Hare alumni were part of many subsequent independence movements and governments of newly independent African countries.[2][3]
In 1959, the university was subsumed by the apartheid system, but it is now part of South Africa's post-apartheid public higher education system. It is the alma mater of well-known people including Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Robert Sobukwe, Oliver Tambo, and others.
- ^ "University of Fort Hare appoints Prof Sakhela Buhlungu as new vice chancellor". No. Times Media Group. Time Live. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- ^ "CHE | Council on Higher Education | Regulatory body for Higher Education in South Africa | Education | Innovation | University | South Africa". che.ac.za. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ "University of Fort Hare | National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)". nihss.ac.za. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2020.