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Xenophobia at odds with SA 'rhetoric of inclusivity and human rights'
Everyone in South Africa – citizens and foreigners alike – should be worried by the recent spate of attacks on black foreigners that started in KwaZulu-Natal and have subsequently...
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The University of Cape Town expresses its abhorrence and deep concern over the rise of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in Kwazulu-Natal, Gauteng and other places around our country. We condemn...
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Huge numbers at Mathematics Competition
No fewer than 7 500 students from across the Western Cape converged on upper campus on 16 April to take part in UCT's Mathematics Competition. They came from as nearby as Rondebosch and as far afield...
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Ad hominem promotions celebrated
The university celebrated the achievements and recent ad hominem promotions of 104 members of staff at an event on 17 February 2015 at Smuts Dining Hall. Ad hominem applicants are rated across a broad...
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Confucius Institute: A bridge between Africa and China
Shengyong Qin throws a small, brown cake into a white porcelain cup, and tips boiling water from the teapot. Cultural outreach: Assoc Prof Shengyong Qin of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research...
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Trackers show vultures on decline
Using aerospace technology to look at dwindling bearded vulture populations from afar has offered fresh perspectives on the contribution of human beings to the species' steep decline. Human factors...
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New system aids drought predictions in biodiverse regions
Climate-change-induced drought is threatening the world's biodiversity hotspots; but a new, standardisable system to describe drought strategies in plants will help conservationists understand the...
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Campus trees on the mend after ring-barking
The three camphor trees along Stanley Road on middle campus that were stripped of their bark in December last year are responding well to treatment after arborist and conservation forester Riaan van...
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UCT researchers shine in prestigious health awards
South African universities, including UCT, have received significant awards – a total of US$8-million in the first year – to support research targeting HIV/AIDS,...
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A people's history of struggle
This Freedom Day, we mark the extraordinary turnabout in South Africa's history with reflections from a few UCT staff and former students on how the struggle against apartheid took shape on campus...
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Decolonising UCT
A panel of distinguished academics as well as students from the Rhodes Must Fall movement shared their ideas on how they see the process of decolonising UCT moving forward, during a lively, often...
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Postgrads showcase winning research
"The very nature of the university as we know it is changing," says Dr Marilet Sienaert, executive director of the Research Office, "and it is up to the next generation of academics – today's...
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Understanding and responding to xenophobic violence
At lunchtime on Thursday 23 April 2015, while Johannesburg residents marched against xenophobic violence, UCT gathered for a discussion on how to better understand, respond to and prevent this kind of...
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UCT 'opens up' to local learners
UCT Open Day saw the university hosting in excess of 5 000 grade 10-12 learners from local schools as well as a group from as far afield as Zambia. Open Day, an annual event that took place on 18 April...
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Affordable heart valves to help rheumatic heart disease sufferers
Cardiac surgery techniques and technology were driven, in the 1960s in Europe and America, by the high death toll from rheumatic heart disease (RHD). In the 1970s the global burden of disease changed...
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Developing civic-minded university graduates
How do we prepare students for a world that is increasingly unknowable, disruptive, unequal and disturbing? Janice McMillan, convenor of UCT's Global Citizenship Programme, writes about the importance...
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UCT appoints first female dean of EBE
UCT has appointed Professor Alison Lewis as dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (EBE) – the first woman to receive such an appointment. She will take up her new...
View ArticleLetter to SRC Presidents by Ramabina Mahapa (UCT SRC President)
Ramabina Mahapa, President of UCT's Student Representative Council, has written the following letter (dated 5 May 2015) to SRC Presidents and the South African Union of Students: Dear Sir/Madam I offer...
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UCT launches next MOOC – What is a mind?
World renowned psychologist Professor Mark Solms will be leading the discussion from 11 May when he teaches thousands of people from around the world during UCT's next MOOC, What is a Mind? To find out...
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TransformUCT: Drop punitive policy, give students space
The Black Academic Caucus, also known as TransformUCT, stands against the university's decision to pursue punitive disciplinary action against those involved in the Rhodes Must Fall movement. We ask...
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