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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.