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...most blacks with postsecondary degrees earned them through UNISA or Fort Hare, but the English-language institutions—including the University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg and Durban) and Rhodes University—admitted a few black students until 1959, when their ability to do so was restricted by apartheid legislation that they fiercely opposed. The government then established...
...and includes part of the original church (1824–30); St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church (1836); and the first Baptist and Methodist chapels in South Africa. Grahamstown is also the site of Rhodes University (1904), the 1820 Settlers Memorial Museum (1965) and Nature Reserve, several important public and private schools, the Albany Museum (1855), a public library with a collection of...
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