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Physio intervention helps arthritis pain management
Romy Parker, Associate Professor in UCT’s Division of Physiotherapy, has released research into pain management for sufferers of end-stage arthritis. Pain, it turns out, is not a terribly...
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Safe hands: Meet the Sports Science Institute’s new chief
Medical alumnus Dr Phatho Zondi, the new chief executive officer of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Dr Phatho Zondi’s new office in the Sports Science Institute of South Africa...
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UCT researchers identify a potent anti-malarial candidate
Anopheles albimanus mosquito feeding on a human arm – this mosquito is a common vector of malaria. Researchers from UCT’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D, have identified...
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Sports rehab clinic for Groote Schuur
Drs Jeroen Swart and Caroline Dalton (UCT Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine) at work in the new sports injury rehabilitation clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital. The Sports Injury Clinic at...
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The Jammie driver with an infectious smile
Jammie Shuttle driver Nazeem Mobarah, known around campus for his infectious smile, has been at UCT for 11 years. He was one of many to be insourced earlier this month. After 11 years behind the wheel...
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UCT’s postgrad degrees tackle the complexities of sustainable...
The Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) consortium of eight African universities will focus on scaling up postgraduate education in sustainable development across the continent. The...
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Duma is a nursing Hall-of-Famer
Associate Professor Sinegugu Duma focuses much of her research on sexual violence. Associate Professor Sinegugu Duma of the Division of Nursing and Midwifery at UCT, and founding director of the...
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Support the artists of tomorrow
Over the years, UCT’s Faculty of Humanities has produced well-known opera stars, artists, dancers, and film and theatre industry professionals of both national and international...
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PhD candidate seeks to reduce child labour and promote education
Beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in Ghana are required to stay in school. Photo by ©FAO/Ivan Grifi. Rebecca Nana Yaa Ayifah was first inspired to...
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Nwadeyi believes in the future of Africa
Prince Nwadeyi, part of the UCT Upstarts programme, believes that entrepreneurship is the key to creating a better tomorrow for Africa. Following last year’s successful Idea Auction, which...
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Mistaken identity: Scholar sheds new light on museum
PhD scholar Halim Gençoĝlu outside the Bo-Kaap Museum at 71 Wale Street. His archival research reveals a case of mistaken identity in the museum’s ownership. The Turkish...
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Vice-Chancellor’s welcome to insourced staff
(From left) Felicia Dwantyi, Vice Chancellor Dr Max Price and Moira Ruiters of the UCT Educare Centre. “This is a very happy day”, “This is a new beginning”....
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Then and now: Citizen scientists document landscape changes
“General view of the Hogsback Mountains” was taken by John Acocks in 1942. The repeat photograph was taken by PhD candidate and citizen scientist Justin du Toit in 2016. Note the...
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Did a rotating ‘broom’ or gas ejection cause the Milky...
Honorary Professor Michael Feast is one of the authors of a new paper on the giant ‘desert’ free of Cepheid stars at the heart of our galaxy. Astronomers speculate that a rotating,...
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Students by day, entrepreneurs by night
The Limelens team meet in their office, a typical student digs in Observatory, where they are surrounded by prototypes. (From left) Michael Dickens, Faye Jones, Tyler Bodmann and Joel Bronner. Their...
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The answer, my friend, is rowing in the wind
Misty mornings like this are what forged athletes like Jonty Smith, the former UCT rower who is representing South Africa at the Olympic Games in Rio. Jonty Smith was left high and dry in Rio on...
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Makhi Vincent Rala: a man of hidden talents
Makhi Vincent Rala has worked as a CPS officer at UCT since 2002. He is known as the personable and generous personality that helps everyone entering the Bremner building. Makhi Vincent Rala instantly...
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UCT’s latest free MOOC to catalyse social change
The six-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation, is aimed at those who want to make a change in their community and will explore the concepts...
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Finding peace amidst the punches
Focused: Rifqah van Schalkwyk, in the black scarf, finds karate to be an almost spiritual experience. For all its furious fists and roundhouse kicks, karate is an intensely spiritual endeavour...
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Xolisile Thusini: a smashing science success
Xolisile Thusini, a master’s student in the Department of Physics, is a 2016 Women in Science Awards winner. Xolisile Thusini is a particle physicist whose research focuses on the discovery...
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