FNB CUT produced a dominant second-half display to demolish the FNB Fort Hare Blues by 40-10 in Alice, ensuring that they would play the 2012 Varsity Shield Final in front of their home crowd next week.The home side took an early lead thanks to a try from their captain and No.8 Thando Ndondo, and although CUT managed to reply with a try of their own, a penalty from Blues flyhalf Banda Masixole ...read more.

A collaborative effort between the University of Fort Hare's Department of Information Systems and IBM saw four of East London less privileged primary schools receiving two KidSmart early learning computer units. The official handover took place at Kuswag Primary School in East London on 20 March 2012.Arcadia, Kuswag, New Generation, and St John's Primary Schools were recipients of the donation that targeted schools with good....read more.

The University of Fort Hare is hosting a Book Launch, Prickly Pear:  A social History of a plant in the Eastern Cape, on Wednesday 28 March 2012, at the Alice Campus' Staff Centre­­ at 15H00.The book was authored by academics Luvuyo Wotshela and William Beinart from the universities of Fort Hare and Oxford,UK respectively. Prickly Pear is based on intensive archival research, on interviews conducted by the authors in the Eastern Cape.

The University of Fort Hare's South African Primate Initiative for Ecology and Speciation (A.P.I.E.S) was awarded the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARchI) Chair in Past and Present Primate Diversity. The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARhI) is a flagship programme of the National Research Foundation...read more.

FNB Fort Hare and FNB Wits threw everything at each other and eventually finished deadlocked at 10-10 in their physically intense Varsity Shield clash in Alice on Monday night.The teams went into the half-time break with everything to play for tied up at 2-2, and the second half was just as tense with both teams managing a try each as they shared the spoils in front of an enthusiastic crowd...read more.