A delegation from South Korea visited the University of Fort Hare on the 3rd of May 2012 during an exchange visit aimed at establishing collaboration between the province of The Eastern Cape of South Africa and the Province  Chungchoengam-Do of South Korea and increasing the levels of friendship. These links which would promote inter- nation’s investments in agricultural projects and go on to an extent of facilitating exchange programmes between the University Of Fort Hare and the other 23 Universities which are in Chungchoengam-Do Province of South Korea.

Tendai Mariri, a doctoral student in the Department of Industrial Psychology, Faculty of Management and Commerce was selected and sponsored to be part of 300 other students selected from across the world to attend the 15th edition of the World Business Dialogue (WBD) in Cologne, Germany from the 12th to the 16th of March 2012. The WBD, now under the exclusive sponsorship of Daimler, KPMG, Air Berlin and several other premium sponsors, is the world's largest student-run business convention that connects students from all five continents.

Definitely this is not a Currie Cup or a Varsity Shield encounter but a fierce rugby tournament where the future stars of tomorrow are groomed. This is University of Fort Hare Steinhoff Inter-Village Rugby League sponsored by Steinhoff International said Mr Craig Christiaan the President of the Victoria East Rugby Union (VERU). The community around here is very passionate about rugby and they just love the game. Last week was the last round robin matches of the Steinhoff Inter - Village Rugby League and quite a number of teams were standing a chance to qualify for the play offs on the 12 May 2012. People came from all over to come and witness their teams battling it out on the field.

The 2012 Varsity Shield has come and gone. For the Fort Hare Blues it leaves memories of despair and happiness as they performed better in this year’s edition of the Shield compared to last year. Well it is the wish of every rugby coach to win every single game in the competition but for Fort Hare they started with a wrong footing by losing against their old foes, the University of the Western Cape at home. The Alice team had everything going their way in this game but unfortunately they lost concentration in the last fifteen minutes of the encounter and got punished. To prove that they were a better team than UWC, they destroyed them in the return game in Belville.

Professor Leslie Bank and Dr Clifford Mabhena's article,"Bring Back Kaiser Matazima: Communal Land, Traditional Leadership and Politics of Nostalgia In Rural South Africa", published in the latest edition of  the New South Africa Review 2 (Wits University Press) was featured in the "After Eight' debate on SA FM on the 19th of April 2012. Professor Bank engaged in a wide ranging debate with  the Deputy Minister of Land Affairs and former Land Commissioner, Professor Peter Mayende, on pressing issues related to communal land reform and rural development.