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Integrating informal settlements
The Slum Dwellers International (SDI) affiliated informal settlement Langrug, in Franschhoek, is an example of a successful upgrading project. South Africa has a housing crisis, and informal...
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Teaching and Learning at UCT
Teaching and Learning at UCT Teaching and learning are the core functions of any university and UCT is constantly striving to improve the experience of teaching and learning for academic staff and...
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Shining new light on ancient malaria drugs
The PhD research of postdoctoral fellow John Woodland focused on providing new insights into the cellular localisation and targets of antimalarial drugs. John Woodland, a student from the Department of...
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A reluctant farewell to DVC Visser
DVC Prof Danie Visser retires from UCT after 32 years of service. Beginning as a lecturer in the 80s, Visser stepped up as Dean of Law and later DVC for Research and Internationalisation. Photo Michael...
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Wildlife solutions for a crowded planet
A centuries-long war has been ongoing in the Western Cape province of South Africa – a war that pre-dates apartheid, the South African war and the militaristic rise of the Zulu Kingdom. It...
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'Be leaders of integrity that society needs'
Chair of Council Sipho Pityana was guest speaker at this morning’s graduation ceremony, one of two that will be held in a truncated graduation season. Sipho Pityana, UCT’s Chair of...
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'Believe in yourself', Walaza urges graduands
Nomfundo Walaza, executive director at Peace Systems, was guest speaker at this afternoon’s ceremony. This afternoon’s graduation in Jameson Hall was a case of coming full circle...
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Iconic conifers under threat
A team of UCT ecologists has used repeat photography to study the decline of the critically endangered Clanwilliam cedar. Their findings, published last month, suggest that climate change and...
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Fighting African fungal infections: the world's first international research...
The world's first international research centre for tackling fungal infections, which kill around 1.3 million people globally every year, has been set up in South Africa by the University of...
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Antarctic expedition sails from Cape Town
Dr Sarah Fawcett at the harbour. Photo Michael Hammond. A cohort of 50 leading scientists from around the world will set off from Cape Town on a Russian vessel just before Christmas to circumnavigate...
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Pre-colonial ivory trade earlier than thought
Aerial view of Ndondondwane site in KwaZulu-Natal where there is evidence of early ivory working. The site is in the ploughed area on the left of the Thukela River. Photo Tim Maggs....
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Popplestone: A masterpiece written in the margins
As a blind student, Reinette Popplestone learnt to dig deeply – a necessity when access to texts was limited to what was available in libraries for the blind. “I couldn’t...
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Interim fee-free HE report released
The Interim Report of the Commission into the Feasibility of Fee-Free Higher Education and Training in South Africa has been released. Read the interim report... The full report is expected in June...
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A manifesto for change
Sharlene Swartz addresses the inaugural conference on restitution in her book Another Country: Everyday Social Restitution. White South Africans, do sorry, don’t say sorry. This is the bold...
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Southern African tourism: the 'multiplier' effect
For every night that a tourist stays over at a high-end game lodge in a remote part of southern Africa, 14 people in the surrounding community benefit indirectly from the income generated by the...
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A giant leap for astronomy, another giant leap for South Africa
Image by Thomas Jarrett (UCT), based on data from the 2MASS Photometric Redshift catalogue (Bilicki et al. 2014) and the All-Sky Milky Way Panorama (Mellinger 2009). Learn more about the image. Earlier...
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Conference to investigate universe's dark side
Image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope indicating that a huge ring of dark matter likely exists surrounding the centre of CL0024+17 that has no normal matter counterpart. Over 60 participants...
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The battle to recovery
Associate Professor Sinegugu Duma’s book The Pain of Being a Woman tells the stories of sexual assault trauma of 10 women as they try to find healing. It was while compiling research on...
View ArticleUCT Annual Retirees Dinner 2016
With the academic year having run later than usual, the UCT Annual Retirees Dinner on 24 November moved from stately Smuts Hall to the neighbouring Western Province Rugby Club at Newlands. At...
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Rise of the hired hitman: assassinations and democracy in SA
Press coverage of the 2016 local elections shone a spotlight on the murky world of political assassinations in South Africa, while high-profile cases such as those of Anni Dewani and Jayde Panayiotou...
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