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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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Summer school: a feast for the mind and the heart
UCT’s Summer School programme offers 66 diverse courses that cater for a plethora of learners. Attendees browse books for sale during Summer School. These courses dive directly into the heart...
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MasterCard graduates ready to drive change in their communities
The partnership between the MasterCard Foundation and the University of Cape Town will provide 338 scholarships to academically talented yet economically disadvantaged students from sub-Saharan Africa...
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Back by popular demand
President of AGNES, Dr Heather Marco, invited guest at the Alexander von Humboldt annual general meeting in Berlin 2015. Photo David Ausserhofer. In a meeting held in Benin last year, Dr Heather...
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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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PhD student clinches Mr SA title
PhD student Habib Noorbhai is the new Mr SA, having won the title in Johannesburg last week. PhD student in sports science Habib Noorbhai clinched the Mr South Africa title on 24 November. The...
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Rings and things... other ways to prevent HIV are on the cards
The rate of HIV infection remains greater than the number of people initiating treatment. This imbalance will stop the eradication of HIV/AIDS. It begs for increased investment into primary...
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