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Making legal advice accessible
Check those shirts: (from left) Max Cromarty (sales and marketing executive) and Richard Burge (project manager) took time out to crack a smile at the UCT Law@Work Club's offices. Some employers have...
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African immunisation systems fall short, say UCT experts
Assess programmes: African children are still dying in large numbers from preventable disease vaccinations systems are failing in many regions, say the UCT authors of an article in the latest issue of...
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Ikeys break fifty in Green Mile thriller
Earned his stripes: Ikeys centre Tiger Bax goes on the rampage against FNB Wits in his last Varsity Cup match. Bax scored two tries, capping off a distinguished career in the blue and white hoops. Few...
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Vitamin B12 transporter is key to understanding TB pathogen
New findings: In the laboratory, Prof Valerie Mizrahi with Drs Digby Warner (middle) and Krishnamoorthy Gopinath, postdoctoral research fellow. A paper published recently in Open Biology, a new journal...
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First postdoc fellow for management studies
Dr Sarah Chapman. Dr Sarah Chapman is the School of Management Studies' first postdoctoral research fellow. Her speciality is implementation research. Within this field she has worked to develop...
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Libraries head is UNISA alumnus of the year
Accolade: UNISA's Department of Information Science's Alumnus of the Year 2011, Gwenda Thomas, the executive director of UCT Libraries. Executive director of UCT libraries Gwenda Thomas has been...
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Robust debate at Student Assembly
Held accountable: (from left) Sarvesh Balkaran (chair: undergraduate academics, SRC), Lwazi Somya (services and labour co-ordinator, SRC) and Chanda Chungu (societies co-ordinator) were among the SRC...
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'At the Intersection' Colloquium
Disability Colloquium 25/27 March 2013. UN Special Rapporteur on Violence, Prof Rashida Manjoo (Key note Speaker) right and Reinette Popplestone (Head of UCT, Disability Service) Barnard Fuller...
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Honorary doctorate for DVC Visser
Honoured: Deputy vice-chancellor Prof Danie Visser will receive a Doctor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh on 3 July this year. The University of Edinburgh will confer an honorary Doctor of Laws...
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Symposium explores nanotechnology for drugs, bio-engineering
Partnership: Those who attended the nanotechnology symposium at UCT in March were (from left, back) Prof Markku Leskela (University of Helsinki), Dr Iryna Grafova (University of Helsinki), Prof Cosimo...
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Indigenous and green - UCT students change community's landscape
Community roots: Alison Coutras of Green Communities helps a new Witsand homeowner plant their demo garden, in the company of UCT first-year construction and property studies students and community...
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Doubles for UCT in the prestigious A- and P-ratings
Biology and emotion: Prof Jack van Honk of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health is one of UCT's two new A-rated researchers and a world leader in the multidisciplinary field of hormones, the...
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Healthy Intervention for 3 Tons of Fun
The soul sisters from all-girl singing group 3 Tons of Fun, Sthe Mfuphi, Bulelewa Sakayi and Michelle Thomas, enjoying their exercise regime at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. This is...
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A land divided: photo exhibition tells many stories
Portraits from a divided land: Kasianyane Maine - Ou Kas, as he was affectionately and respectfully known - takes his cattle out to graze in the early morning at Ledig, near Sun City. (Photo by David...
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Open lecture puts SA's water future under the spotlight
Crisis and opportunity: Dhesigen Naidoo (right), chief executive officer of the Water Research Commission (WRC), with Professor Mark New, Pro Vice-Chancellor: African Climate and Development...
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UCT Creative Writing Student wins Literary Prize
Creative writing master's student has won the Eugene Marais literary prize for his anthology of Afrikaans poetry 'In die skadu van soveel bome'. UCT creative writing master's student Hennie Nortjé has...
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Nyamnjoh is 2013's 'African Hero'
Hero: Professor Francis Nyamnjoh speaks at the prize-giving ceremony at Ohio University where he was named African Hero of the Year 2013. Internationally-recognised anthropologist, UCT's Professor...
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'Africa's development must be generated from within' - Ndulo
Gather the forces: Professor Muna Ndulo urged a packed All Africa House to use the academic arena to take charge of Africa's destiny and improve the continent's fortunes. Since the colonial era, the...
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New additions to security fleet
Crime fighters: Security contractor G4S has introduced four new branded security vehicles to patrol campus. In picture with one of the vehicles are crime prevention officers Lindelani Tyhilana and...
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Three of UCT's best in Paris
Women scientists lit up the Champs-Élysées in Paris recently in a display of posters featuring the 77 Laureates of the L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Award, an exposition to mark the award's 15th...
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