Nelson Mandela attended Healdtown, a Methodist school near Fort Beaufort, South Africa.
Healdtown was one of the major institutions in the education of Black South Africans during the early twentieth century. Mandela studied there after attending Clarkebury Boarding Institute and before entering the University College of Fort Hare. The school provided academic instruction as well as religious and disciplinary training.
Mandela’s time at Healdtown formed part of a broader educational journey through institutions connected with Methodist missions and Thembu society. His later studies at Fort Hare exposed him to student politics and helped shape his developing political awareness.
Readers sometimes confuse Healdtown with Clarkebury, where Mandela studied earlier, or Fort Hare, which was a university-level institution. They were separate stages of his education.