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‘We will have a potential lost generation’
UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price addressed the press on 28 September 2016 about the implications of not finishing the 2016 academic year. UCT needs to reopen on Monday, 3 October. Failing to do so will...
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Chance encounters: how Karen Sliwa is putting African cardiology on the map
Karen Sliwa. Photo Michael Hammond. Professor Karen Sliwa’s career has been characterised by chance and a lack of convention, and she has now broken convention again: the first female and the...
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Executive Update: Message from the VC
Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price hosted a media conference at the Protea Hotel in Mowbray with local and national media on Wednesday, 28 September....
View ArticleUCT Chair of Council calls for reopening of academic programme on...
Mr Sipho Pityana, chairman of UCT’s Council, urges students to allow the academic year to resume at UCT by working together with the university to achieve the objectives that we are all...
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Lutete Khonde: Synthesizing a super antioxidant
Lutete Khonde in the lab where he has been working to create a new method for synthesizing ergothioneine. Growing up in the DRC, Lutete Khonde had no idea that a decade later he would find himself in...
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Rainbow Week: My pronoun is...
Umlilo (left) and Syllable Whyt-lyon dropped some of their new material, to the delight of the crowd. Cloudy weather didn’t take the shine off Rainbow Week as 2016’s edition wound...
View ArticleProfessor Anwar Mall urges the UCT community to reopen the university
Professor Anwar Mall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Transformation and Student Affairs, highlights the risks of a continued UCT shutdown for the university and for South Africa and urges all stakeholders...
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Celebrating legends and new talent
Iesu Escalante and Tamryn Escalante are due to perform in the 14th annual Baxter Dance Festival that will be taking place between 6 and 15 October 2016. The 14th annual 10-day Baxter Dance Festival...
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Silent protesters’ message: Keep the doors of learning open
UCT staff and students gathered for a silent protest on the Jammie plaza at noon on Friday under the banner ‘Keep the doors of learning open’. This was ahead of the planned...
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Executive Update: Message from the VC
Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price and other members of the University of Cape Town executive met with about 200 protesters outside the Bremner building this morning and...
View ArticleUCT explains why engagement with protesters failed
Dr Max Price, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, sent a campus communication to staff and students last evening. This message reflected on the engagement process with protesters, which...
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Executive Update: Monday, 3 October 2016
Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price The following is an update from the executive on recent activities on UCT campuses. As you would have read in last night’s VC Desk, the executive spent most of...
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Forget nuclear power: fund education
UCT’s former chair of Council marked the 50-year anniversary of his release from Robben Island by launching the Robben Island Dialogues, an intergenerational event that he hopes to make an...
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Prestigious book award for neuropsychologist
Dr Balchin’s prize-winning book deals with the essential competencies and practical skills needed to work in clinical neuropsychology, especially in resource-scarce settings. Dr Ross Balchin,...
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VC confident of swift return to full operations
UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price updated the media about the status quo at UCT on 4 October. The reopening of UCT’s academic programme from 3 October was a “partial...
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Executive Update: Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price The following is an update from the executive on recent activities on UCT campuses. The university was open today and most operations are continuing. This morning a small...
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Executive Update: Friday, 7 October 2016
Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price Since making the difficult decision on Wednesday, 5 October, to close the university, the Executive has been meeting with key stakeholders, including students, staff and...
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Adam van Niekerk: The student inventor
Adam van Niekerk: “All I really want is a workshop and some problems that need solving.” Gravity, as a force to defy and as an inspiration, has been central to Adam van...
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Grant powers Gaunt’s geomagnetic study
Solar flares, like this one that occurred on 27 October 2014, fling magnetically charged matter to earth, wreaking havoc but also sparking incredible light shows such as the aurora borealis. Photo...
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Executive Update: Thursday, 13 October 2016
Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price UCT expects, by this weekend, to be in a position to make an announcement about the conclusion of the 2016 academic programme. The Senior Leadership Group will further...
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