University of Fort Hare - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Name DoB - DoD Notes
Z. K. Matthews 1901–1968 Lectured at Fort Hare from 1936 to 1959
Archibald Campbell Jordan 30 October 1906–1968 Novelist, pioneer of African studies
Govan Mbeki 9 July 1910 – 30 August 2001 South African politician
Yusuf Lule 1912 - 21 January 1985 Interim president of Uganda 1979
Cedric Phatudi 27 May 1912 – 7 October 1987 Former Chief Minister of Lebowa 1972–1987
Kaiser Matanzima 5 June 1915 - 15 June 2003 President of bantustan Transkei
Oliver Tambo 27 October 1917 – 24 April 1993 member, African National Congress- Expelled while doing his second degree.
Joshua Nkomo 1918 - 1 July 1999 Founder of the ZAPU.
Nelson Mandela 18 July 1918 - Former President of South Africa- - Expelled and later graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Lionel Ngakane 17 July 1920 – 26 November 2003 South African filmmaker
Seretse Khama 1 July 1921 – 13 July 1980 First President of Botswana
Julius Nyerere 19 July 1922 – 14 October 1999 President of Tanzania
Herbert Chitepo 15 June 1923 – 18 March 1975 ZANU leader
Robert Sobukwe 1924 - 27 February 1978 Founder of the Pan Africanist Congress
Robert Mugabe 21 February 1924 - President of Zimbabwe, attended 1949–1951
Kenneth Kaunda 28 April 1924 - First President of Zambia
Allan Hendrickse 22 October 1927 – 16 March 2005 Politician, preacher, and teacher
Mangosuthu Buthelezi 27 August 1928 - Leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party - Never graduated but transferred to University of Natal to study History and Bantu Administration; graduated to become leader of KwaZulu Bantustan in apartheid South Africa
Desmond Tutu 7 October 1931 - Archbishop Emeritus, South African peace activist, Chaplain at Fort Hare in 1960
Frank Mdlalose 29 November 1931 - First Premier of KwaZulu-Natal
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri 18 September 1937 – 6 April 2009 Minister of Communications, South Africa
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang 9 October 1940 – 16 December 2009 Minister of Health of South Africa
Chris Hani 28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993 Leader of the South African Communist Party - Expelled, later graduated from Rhodes University.
Wiseman Nkuhlu 5 February 1944 - economic advisor to former President Thabo Mbeki, Head of NEPAD
Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile 27 December 1944 - former Minister of Sport of South Africa
Sam Nolutshungu 15 April 1945 – 12 August 1997 South African scholar
Nyameko Barney Pityana 7 August 1945 - lawyer and theologian, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa
Bulelani Ngcuka 2 May 1954 - South Africa's former Director of Public Prosecutions
Loyiso Nongxa 1954- Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand
Joseph Diescho 1955 - Namibian novelist
John Hlophe 1 January 1959 - Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division of the High Court

(Others, unknown DOB)

  • Tiyo Soga - religion, Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa
  • K. Mokhele - science
  • Don Ncube - business

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