Non-European Section of Natal University College

University College of Natal (later the University of Natal and then University of KwaZulu Natal) began to offer a separate university level education to "non-european" students in the ‘Non-European Section’ (NES) from 1936.^[1] Prior to this, the Fort Hare University (UFH) had been a place of political energy and resitance. Staff and students both lived and thought through non-racialism on campus.^[2] and Indian students either enrolled at Fort Hare or studied abroad at medical school. The establishment of the non-european section at Satri College extended higher education opportunities to a wider range of black South Africans and served as a model for the future apartheid state.^[3] In 1948, Natal University College was incorporated into the University of Natal but the non-european section at Satri College and the “non-European” section of the university’s medical school continued. The University of Natal had institutionalized geographically and racially separated groups of students, 12 years prior to the formal adoption of Apartheid. ^[4]

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The Non-European Section of Natal University College was located in SATRi College

Notable alumni

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
M. J. Naidoo		South African Lawyer and NIC President