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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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Tax time made easier
Assoc Prof Ryan Kruger is known for his ability to teach relevant and practical material in an understandable way. Associate Professor Ryan Kruger has taught on every finance course offered at an...
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Stephanie Fanucchi recognised at the 19th L'Oreal-Unesco for Women in Science...
Dr Stephanie Fanucchi is in the Biomedical Translational Research Initiative (BTRI) – an initiative of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the University of...
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Number's up for scary statistics
Dr Miguel Lacerda is one of six winners of the 2016 Distinguished Teacher Award. Senior lecturer Dr Miguel Lacerda teaches statistics with an artful combination of precision and creativity. Based in...
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Why Nut just start something?
Why Nut: the granola bars that Nyasha Mawungwe sells on campus. Why Nut aims to provide healthy snacks to the UCT community and to encourage healthy eating habits among students. Third-year chemical...
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Conference deals with Mendi tragedy
“Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ “Ukuzika kukaMendi”: The Mendi Centenary Conference is being hosted by the Centre for African Studies from 28 to 30 March as part of the...
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Delving into the darknet to discover the secret world of paedophiles
“Paedophilia isn’t a crime. Child sexual abuse is the crime.” This controversial statement is bound to evoke mixed and strong emotions from all corners – most...
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UCT mourns the passing of Dr Kathrada
Ahmed Kathrada arrives at an ANC rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu. Soweto, 29 October 1989. Photo Zubeida Vallie / UCT Libraries Digital Collections. The university community woke up...
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Renamed Knowledge Commons honours struggle librarian
The renamed Vincent Kolbe Knowledge Commons honours the late Vincent Kolbe, the ‘people’s librarian’, and is described as an innovative learning space embodying the values...
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Primary healthcare bible piloted in Brazil
Clinical nurse practitioner Sister Lelani Schoeman seeing a patient and using PACK in the Oudtshoorn Clinic, Eden District. Photo UCT TV. Primary healthcare practitioners call it their bible....
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Bird-watching society now in full flight
The African Black Oystercatcher was pulled from the brink of extinction by a combination of banning beach driving and an invasive mollusc species that the oystercatchers gratefully gobbled up. Photo...
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Peace and Conflict scholar appointed to Van Zyl Slabbert Chair
Professor Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae. Leading African scholar Professor Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae is the first of the 2017 Van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Professors at the University of Cape Town. The Van Zyl...
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UCT alumni win at SAFTAs
UCT alumni, from Reel Epics Productions, bagged two Golden Horns at the SAFTAs earlier this month. The South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) ceremony, which was hosted at Sun City at the...
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Put students at the heart of pedagogy
“For real transformation to happen, we need to position the student differently to the knowledge – they need to feel themselves ‘in’ the knowledge”...
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Chair of Council warns against racial chauvinism
Sipho Pityana stresses that transparency, commitment and frank discussions are crucial to the IRTC’s success. UCT’s Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC)...
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What the Constitution says about land restitution
Retired Justice of the Constitutional Court Albie Sachs recounted the complexities of negotiating for land restitution at CODESA in the early 1990s when he spoke at UCT on 27 March 2017. What...
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Distinguished Teacher Awards 2016
The Distinguished Teacher Award recognises excellent teaching and is the highest accolade awarded to teaching staff at all levels within the university and recognises excellent teaching. Through the...
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Stakes for South Africa's democracy are high as Zuma plunges the knife
President Jacob Zuma. Photo World Economic Forum / Eric Miller. South Africa has reached a crisis point in its political history that’s been looming on the horizon for more than a year. In...
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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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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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