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Zuma court ruling: South Africans witness a massive day for democracy
The accountability of public governance in South Africa has come a long way since 1994. When the transitional constitution was hammered out in negotiations in 1993, the primary consideration...
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Namaqualand community pick-up needed – Marianna's story
For most of her 52 years, Marianna Lot has lived in Paulshoek, a town barely 1 000-strong on the edge of Namaqualand. It’s one of 10 villages in the broader Leliefontein communal...
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A test to predict the risk of developing TB disease
A landmark study published this month in the leading medical journal The Lancet, reports the discovery of a blood test that can predict whether someone is likely to develop tuberculosis (TB) disease,...
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Opening the doors of science
Postdoctoral Square Kilometre Array (SKA) fellow Tana Joseph knows the value of firing a young imagination. That’s what happened to her at the age of 11 when the Cape Times published a series...
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Millions set aside for Africa's first social impact bonds
The UCT Graduate School of Business’ (GSB) Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been working with national, provincial and local government in South Africa to design...
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The fight against TB shifts to fixing the immune system, not only bacteria
Tuberculosis (TB) has managed to remain a major global health problem, despite 100 years of research and more than 50 years of treatment being available. It still claims up to 1.5 million lives each...
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Dramatic night in South Africa leaves president hanging on by a thread
South African President Jacob Zuma apologised to his country on national television just before eight in the evening after a dramatic 36 hours that ended with him hanging onto power by a thread....
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The challenge of decolonisation: UCT's transformation journey
By Max Price and Russell Ally Since the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town, UCT has been in the midst of a far-reaching change that will see a fundamentally...
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Mathemagicians to test their mettle on UCT campus
Some 8 000 of the Western Cape’s sharpest young mathematicians will be participating in the 40th UCT Mathematics Competition on 7 April 2016. The 2015 UCT Mathematics...
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How to destigmatise the Humanities' extended-degree experience?
How does the university deal with the stigma attached to students who are registered for the Humanities faculty’s extended-degree programme? This question was unpacked during one of the...
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New online course in postgrad research writing
The Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) has launched an online course to help postgraduate students to develop their research writing, specifically the concept note that informs a full...
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New partnership to spur drug innovation in Africa
A strategic partnership between UCT’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) and Janssen Pharmaceutica NV will identify and address advanced drug development in Africa and build...
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Nonhlanhla Khumalo: redefining black hair, defending black skin
This is the story of how a child who regarded a comb as an instrument of apartheid repression became an expert on hair research and dermatology, making headlines across the world with her revelations...
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UCT graduates develop safety device
In response to a series of rapes, attacks and murders in the Cape Town area, UCT graduates Rowan Spazzoli, Tsakane Ngoepe and Louis Buys have conceptualised a wearable safety device that will alert...
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VC Desk: Naming of Buildings Released: 14h40, 30 March 2016
24 March 2016 Dear colleagues, students and alumni, I invite you to participate in an historic process at our institution. Over the next few months, the UCT community has the opportunity to influence...
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Platinum spin-off company launched at UCT
South Africa is a step closer to realising the full potential of its enormous platinum reserves with the launch of a spin-off company, HyPlat, which will be based at UCT. The company is able to...
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Black holes aligned in space
Nobody has ever seen one. They intrigue and, on some shady shelves of popular culture, even horrify. Matthew McConaughey escaped from one’s clutches in 2014’s Interstellar, but how...
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Why emergency care in Africa needs to become a specialised course
The young patient was wheeled into our emergency centre by the ambulance service. He had sustained what appeared to be a severe head and pelvis injury and possibly also a spinal one. An ambulance...
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VC Desk: Update on engagement and discussion around the display of art on...
11 April 2016 Dear colleagues, students and alumni There have been various articles and letters in the media commenting on the process that is being followed to create engagement and discussion around...
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Scholar’s search uncovers UCT’s first black medical doctor
Halim Gençoĝlu, a UCT doctoral student from Turkey, has discovered that Dr Muhammed Shukri Effendi was the first black medical student to graduate from UCT. Effendi, who studied at...
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