The IsiXhosa National Lexicography Unit, (formerly Xhosa Dictionary Project) is a culmination of a project of the University of Fort Hare which started in 1968, under the late Prof W H Pahl, as its Director and Editor-in-Chief. It was a response to a need by students of IsiXhosa, for a modern, definitive, scientific standard dictionary. The IsiXhosa National Lexicography Unit shall herein be referred to as the Unit.

The Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB), a body established by an Act of Parliament under the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, set up eleven national lexicography units, i.e. one for each of the official languages in South Africa. The IsiXhosa National Lexicography Unit is governed by a Board of Directors. Dr M Yoyo currently serves as the University of Fort Hare 's representative on this Board and also as its Chairperson. The Unit has to date published two of the three volumes of the Greater Dictionary of IsiXhosa. Volume 3 was published in 1989 and it comprises letters Q-Z. Volume 2 was published in 2004 and it contains letters K-P. Volume 1 which comprises letters A-J was completed at the end of 2004.

The Unit is the biggest and longest established lexicographic centre for IsiXhosa as well as among the African languages in South Africa . It caters for the needs of both academic and ordinary language and dictionary users.

The marketing strategy of the Unit for its products is built on the perceived demand for quality lexicographic products in IsiXhosa, like monolingual dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, glossaries and term banks. The Unit wants to ensure that customers return to buy from it. At the same time the Unit wishes to use the opportunity to build and cement good interpersonal communication with its customers. The Unit will achieve this by building a core of loyal customers and by concentrating on personal service and at the same time to be sincere in its relationship with them. In line with the increasing economic and public financial reforms taking place both in South Africa and on a global scale, the University of Fort Hare (UFH) and the Eastern Cape Provincial Treasury identified the need for a Public Financial Services Agency that would be able to offer a diverse range of financial services to the public sector. The Public Financial Services Agency was established as the first of its kind in South Africa . PFSA provides quality, relevant, customized and practical solutions that address all levels of financial skills needs. These skills are critical in the pursuit of good governance within the public financial sector. The Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre (GMRDC) has its history in the research and resource centre established by Govan Mbeki. It now incorporates the office of the Dean of Research. The Centre acts as a service to staff on all research and R&D related matters across all campuses and administers the University's research budget. It stimulates, promotes and builds research capacity among staff and post graduate students and works in collaboration with donors and national and international research bodies.

The Centre also oversees the University's research and ethical policies. The Eastern Cape Audio Visual centre based in East London is a joint project of the University of Fort Hare; the Provincial Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts and culture and Buffalo City Municipality.This multi media and visual production center was launched on the 28th of October 2004. Internationally renowned pianist, performer and educator Hotep Galeta is the Project manager and he brings with him his wealth of knowledge and experience in the development of different music genres.The Centre will produce and market the Eastern Cape's rich artistic resources on a national and international scale. This would be done through the recording, production and marketing of musical genres such as pop, gospel, choral, jazz and traditional/indigenous groups using the medium of CDs, Cassettes and DVDs. It will record, document and archive indigenous knowledge systems and rich cultural resources in the semi  urban and remote rural areas of the Eastern Cape . Bring to existence an EAVC's record label for national and international distribution. Initiate a talent search through the medium of regional competitions with the view that the regional winners be groomed, developed, contractually signed and recorded as artists to the EAVC's record label for national and international distribution. This talent competition would be an ongoing annual event to tap into and formally develop the rich musical resources of the Eastern Cape . It presents a niche window of opportunity for the university to reconfigure, interface and synergize some of its academic programmes with the Eastern Cape 's Audio Visual Production Center .  The National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) was established in 1981 on the basis of the former Xhosa Literature Centre, attached to the then Faculty of Arts. The objective of the centre was to accumulate, document and preserve oral and written literary material pertinent to the Xhosa Language with the purpose of making it accessible to various researchers and the public. In 1991 the Centre's name was changed to the Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS). This name change brought new objectives, namely to promote the knowledge and understanding of material and human resources pertinent to heritage and culture in South African through the collection, preservation, study, exposition, enrichment and advancement of material evidence. In 1998, Council approved a second change of name to the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS). NAHECS thus became a broad-based heritage institution which focuses on archival, museum, academic and heritage transformation, as well as developing research unit. In the same year its significant museum collections were unanimously declared a 'national cultural treasure' by Parliament. NAHECS has thus assumed the objective in its profile and commitment of becoming a significant player in the transformation of the South African heritage and cultural landscape. The IsiXhosa National Lexicography Unit, (formerly Xhosa Dictionary Project) is a culmination of a project of the University of Fort Hare which started in 1968, under the late Prof W H Pahl, as its Director and Editor-in-Chief. It was a response to a need by students of IsiXhosa, for a modern, definitive, scientific standard dictionary. The IsiXhosa National Lexicography Unit shall herein be referred to as the Unit. The Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB), a body established by an Act of Parliament under the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, set up eleven national lexicography units, i.e. one for each of the official languages in South Africa.

The IsiXhosa National Lexicography Unit is governed by a Board of Directors. Dr M Yoyo currently serves as the University of Fort Hare 's representative on this Board and also as its Chairperson. The Unit has to date published two of the three volumes of the Greater Dictionary of IsiXhosa. Volume 3 was published in 1989 and it comprises letters Q-Z. Volume 2 was published in 2004 and it contains letters K-P. Volume 1 which comprises letters A-J was completed at the end of 2004. The Unit is the biggest and longest established lexicographic centre for IsiXhosa as well as among the African languages in South Africa . It caters for the needs of both academic and ordinary language and dictionary users. The marketing strategy of the Unit for its products is built on the perceived demand for quality lexicographic products in IsiXhosa, like monolingual dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, glossaries and term banks.

The Unit wants to ensure that customers return to buy from it. At the same time the Unit wishes to use the opportunity to build and cement good interpersonal communication with its customers. The Unit will achieve this by building a core of loyal customers and by concentrating on personal service and at the same time to be sincere in its relationship with them.