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Adapting to water scarcity
Since February 2017 Capetonians have had to deal with tighter controls over a dwindling water supply. How low can they go before limited supplies are unhealthy? The last five years of rainfall...
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Zabalaza strives for success
Nomakrestu Xakathugaga and Thando Mzembe perform in The Holy Plan B, which will be staged during the 2017 Zabalaza Theatre Festival at the Baxter. Loosely translated, Zabalaza Intsika eBaxter Theatre,...
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Development Studies at UCT in Global Top 10 for a Third Year Running
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is ranked 10th in development studies in the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject, released on Wednesday 8 March 2017. The universities of Sussex, Harvard and...
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New ranking shows which SA banks contribute most to systemic risk
UCT students Qobolwakhe Dube and Tresor Kaya. Photo Supplied. Two students from UCT have designed South Africa’s first systemic risk ranking – which outlines what could...
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UCT researchers discover heart-attack gene
Maryam Fish‚ Gasnat Shaboodien and Sarah Kraus‚ the all-female team of researchers who made the discovery of the CDH2 gene. Fifty years after South Africa performed the...
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Decolonising law series on the cards
During the broader protests last year, students from the Faculty of Law called for a space in which to discuss the meaning, content and application of “decolonising law”. The UCT...
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Meet mover and shaker, Itumeleng Mpofu
Itumeleng Mpofu, third-year politics, philosophy and economics student made top six on One Day Leader SA season five. One Day Leader SA is a leadership and debate reality show that airs on SABC1 every...
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Africa's first design-thinking school launched at UCT
The launch took place at UCT’s Graduate School of Business, which hosts the d-school. In an era of intense change, where it’s difficult to predict which jobs will exist in the next...
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A pan-African approach to leadership
The 2017 cohort of the Emerging African Leaders programme pose with Justice Albie Sachs. What could a South African human rights activist have in common with a Senegalese banker? A Ghanaian...
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#BlackGirlMagic for the literary world
UCT alumnus Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is currently completing her DPhil in population health at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. UCT alumnus Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is...
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Medicine and science in harmony after seven years
PhD candidate Matthew Amoni completed his MBChB, BSc (Med) (Hon) and master’s in cardio physiology in only seven years, thanks to an intercalated degree programme that grooms...
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Unbundling higher education
The Unbundled University, research looking at the role of technology in the future of higher education, will run for 26 months. Professors Neil Morris and Laura Czerniewicz, from the...
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Taking the shock out of teaching maths
Dr Jonathan Shock aims to remove the notoriety from one of UCT’s most feared courses: MAM1001W, the dreaded whole-year maths course for first-years students. 2016 was a great year for...
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A new frontier for cancer diagnostics
A histological slide of cancerous breast tissue. The pink “river ways” are normal connective tissue; the dark grains are cancer cells. As the second leading cause of death...
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SASSA - no safety net for beneficiaries
The Black Sash has taken Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini to the Constitutional Court over the social grants debacle. Photo Barbara Maregele / GroundUp. (CC BY-ND 4.0) The consequences...
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'Stare straight into the eye of the perpetrator', says feminist scholar
Prof Jacqueline Rose delivered the Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture at UCT on 16 March 2017. Author Professor Jacqueline Rose, renowned worldwide for her scholarship on the...
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O-Week!
Upper campus buzzed with the O-Week vibe on Jammie Plaza from 8 to 10 March. Tempted by snacks and a moment’s shade, a first-year student puts pen to paper and earns the first...
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Free laptops for hundreds of first-year students
Students learn to set passwords on their new laptops, part of an initiative in which over 800 Lenovo computers were given to first-year students on financial aid at UCT. Over 800 delighted...
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What we've learnt from the drought
Can you use less than 99 litres per day? Poster prepared for UCT’s Water Week 2017 by Bernelle Verster in conjunction with the Future Water Institute and the Green Campus Initiative. On...
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The formula to make maths fun
Dr David Erwin is renowned for developing conceptual frameworks that enable an understanding of mathematics. The Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA) recognises excellent teaching and is the highest...
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