Back Universiteit van Fort Hare Afrikaans جامعة فورت هير Arabic جامعة فورت هير ARZ Universitat de Fort Hare Catalan University of Fort Hare German Universitato de Fort Hare Esperanto Universidad de Fort Hare Spanish Fort Hareko Unibertsitatea Basque Université de Fort Hare French Universidade de Fort Hare Galician
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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.