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European refugee crisis spotlights legal challenges
The refugee crisis in Europe has not only highlighted the limitations of dated international laws on asylum seekers, but different interpretations of rules have clouded responses to the crisis, says...
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Record turnout for parent orientation
Thousands of parents and guardians of first-year students recently spent time on campus to learn more about UCT and what their charges can expect in the year ahead. Student guides directed...
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#FundingFutures campaign to aid students
UCT's 2016 SRC is launching a #FundingFutures campaign that aims to ensure that all current students have the financial wherewithall to register for 2016. One of the campaign posters highlighting the...
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Will the vote swing away from the ANC in elections?
It's not policy or charismatic leaders that will see the ANC triumph again in the upcoming local elections, argues UCT political analyst Dr Zwelethu Jolobe. Instead, it's something rather more banal:...
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How to reverse the decline of southern ground hornbills
Southern ground hornbills are vulnerable across the world, but their conservation status in South Africa has been raised to endangered. In the past 100 years they have experienced a two-thirds...
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DVC Desk: Avenue House Released: 13h30, 4 February 2016
4 February 2016 Dear colleagues and students I write to update you about a situation in Avenue House on campus. Avenue House is the offices of Student Housing and Residence Life. It is a separate...
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Important Notice Released: 16h45, 4 February 2016
Dear RMF It has come to our attention that you have posted a notice on your Facebook page indicating that you will be meeting with Senior Management at 5pm today at Azania House. Furthermore, that you...
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New dean of law up for the challenge
Professor Penny Andrews, UCT’s new dean of law, believes that all her experience has prepared her for a moment such as this and that the problems faced by higher education though difficult...
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Building a pipeline for UCT's professors of the future
The Next Generation Professoriate, a UCT programme aimed at advancing the development of black and female academics is in full swing. Abigail Calata sat down with programme director Professor Robert...
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Security alert: Another Rhodes Memorial incident Released: 15h00, 5 February...
5 February 2016 Dear colleagues and students I am very distressed and outraged once again to report that another female University of Cape Town student has been sexually assaulted while walking on the...
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DVC Desk: Update about accommodation Released: 19h00, 6 February 2016
6 February 2016 Dear colleagues and students I wish to inform you further on developments related to the settling of students into residences. I have written previously to indicate that there has been...
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Majority of international students privately accommodated
Only 125 (1.8%) out of a possible 6680 beds at UCT are allocated to Semester Study Abroad (SSA) students, most of whom are in fact accommodated privately. This is the word from acting DVC Anwar Mall...
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DVC Desk: Update on private security on campus Released: 16h00, 9 February 2016
9 February 2016 Dear colleagues and students The Vice Chancellor wrote to you on 31 January 2016 on the issue of security and particularly private security. Please take the time to read it if you have...
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Young people come first, says incoming DVC
Having started school under a tree in Marapyane village in Mpumalanga in 1972, Mamokgethi Phakeng never envisaged herself as a professor; there was no role model to fire her imagination or kindle a...
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Campus Announcement: UCT condemns hate speech in any form Released: 13h00, 11...
11 February 2016 Dear colleagues and students Yesterday we were alerted to a person entering and sitting in a University of Cape Town dining hall wearing a T-shirt with the words: “Kill all...
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UCT astronomer helps discover hidden galaxies
An international team of scientists, including UCT’s Professor Renée Kraan-Korteweg, has made a groundbreaking discovery by peering through the Milky Way with a radio telescope to...
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Was 'forward panic' to blame for what unfolded at Marikana's Scene 2?
Researcher and writer David Bruce proposed a new theory of what went through the police’s minds as he walked a Summer School audience through what has become known an Marikana’s...
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Remembering District Six
On 11 February 1966, District Six, a multiracial community in the heart of the Mother City, was declared a whites-only area, opening a wound in society that has never healed. UCT Libraries Digital...
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Matric star urges fellow students to 'seize the day'
Thanks to her name, first-year chemical engineering student Namhla Juqu has a better sense than most of the sagacity of that old idiom “Seize the day”. Inspirational story:...
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VC supports SRC's #FundingFutures campaign
Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price recently visited the SRC phonathon hub as the team prepared to conclude a weeklong programme to raise funds for its #FundingFutures campaign. VC Dr Max Price interacting...
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