Global gold mining major highlights academic partnership with South Africa’s Fort Hare

The University of Fort Hare, where the offspring of mineworkers were the first graduates, has agreed a R12.5-million, initial ten-year academic partnership with a gold mining major AngloGold Ashanti, which no longer mines in this country and is now domiciled in the London. Fort Hare is the university where the globally illustrious Nelson Mandela began his incompleted studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree.