Non-European Section of Natal University College
University College of Natal began to offer a separate university level education to "non-european" students in the ‘Non-European Section’ from 1936. Prior to this, the Fort Hare University had been a place of political energy and resistance. Staff and students both lived and thought through non-racialism on campus. 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. 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.