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University of Fort Hare
Motto In lumine tuo videbimus lumen ("In your light we shall see the light")
Type Public university
Established 1916
Chancellor Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza
Vice-Chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu
Students 13,331 (2015)
Location
Main campus: Alice
Other: Bhisho
East London
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Website http://www.ufh.ac.za/
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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.

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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