South Africa: Not Just Your Ordinary Student

On the side of Tyume River in the municipality of Alice, some 100km from East London, lies the University of Fort Hare, an institution that is a beacon of hope for African scholars.

It is at Fort Hare that the late Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 - 5 December 2013), one of the world's most respected statesmen, began his post-high school education and where he would later gain an interest in political activism. Until 1960, the university was the only residential centre of higher education for blacks in South Africa and as Mandela once put it, for young black South Africans it was Oxford, Harvard and Yale all rolled into one.

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