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Genetic diversity of the Chacma baboon key to understanding conservation in a...
The Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) is one of the best-known characters of the southern African landscape. Families of these baboons are regularly spotted hanging out next to highways in rural areas,...
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Initiative to advance African influence in global environmental health
UCT and the Swiss Tropical Institute/University of Basel have launched a historic South African-Swiss (ZA-CH) Bilateral Research Chair, aimed at advancing the voices of African experts in global...
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'Seeding a passion for knowledge'
A group of Western Cape academics and professionals have come together to celebrate and support top-achieving high school learners in South African township schools, starting at Fezeka High School in...
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Fast, cheap calories may make city birds fat and sick
Change. It can creep up on us so gently that we hardly even notice it. Yet the pace of environmental change in the world's cities and landscapes, against the backdrop of the past millennium, is quite...
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South African students must be given the chance to read what they like
University curricula in South Africa are still largely European or American in origin and focus. In some spaces, though, academics are starting to shift the terrain by introducing an African-centred...
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New UCT lab to safeguard SA public
UCT in conjunction with Groote Schuur Hospital recently opened South Africa's first hair and skin research (HSR) laboratory on the top floor of the hospital's Old Main Building. Dr Jennifer van Wyk,...
View ArticleFacts related to suspension & disciplinary charge against Mr Chumani Maxwele
Media release The facts related to the suspension and disciplinary charge: Mr Chumani Maxwele is a registered University of Cape Town student. Ordinarily we treat student disciplinary matters as...
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UCT inventors honoured
UCT professors Ed Rybicki and Kit Vaughan were top achievers at the annual innovation evening hosted by Research Contracts and Intellectual Property Services (RCIPS) recently to recognise UCT inventors...
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Namibia's award-winning fish regime needs to move up a gear
Before Namibia gained independence in 1990, foreign freezer trawlers exploited the country's rich fishing grounds with next to no benefits to Namibians. But two decades after independence, Namibia won...
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A life with birds: special edition of journal honours ornithologist Phil Hockey
Understanding avian adaptation to climate change, why the African oystercatcher is no longer a threatened species, and the discovery of a new breeding ground for blue petrels – all of this is...
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Tackling child abuse with affordable parenting programmes – and clowns
In one of South Africa's poorest areas, an imaginative new parenting programme – a collaboration between Oxford University, UCT, UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and the South African...
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Street-smart E. coli outfoxing modern medicine
Before the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s, infections associated with E. coli claimed hundreds of thousands of human lives. Today, as we see a rise in the prevalence of drug-resistant E. coli...
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UCT opens up mid-year intake for GetSmarter advanced diploma
If you've missed the opportunity to be part of the February uptake of students for the Advanced Diploma in Business Project Management, you have the opportunity to enrol for this online course in June....
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Archaeology, photography and the making of a disciplinary archive
The Mirror in the Ground is a curated book of twelve short visual essays, drawing on photographs from the collection of South African archaeologist John Goodwin. Drawing on a 10-year research project,...
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Fighting TB – South Africa's 'insidious epidemic'
South Africa stands at the centre of a global TB epidemic that is devastating the health of millions and their communities. Researchers at UCT are working with colleagues at Oxford University, health...
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Why property ownership is not a path out of poverty
Home ownership is associated with a sense of security in an unpredictable world. But recent research suggests that property ownership in and of itself provides no real poverty alleviation, either...
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Apartheid continues to cast shadow on equality of opportunity
Countries with a more unequal distribution of income tend to have less economic mobility from one generation to the next. This relationship is often referred to as the "Great Gatsby Curve". Leonardo...
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AIDS: what drove three decades of acronyms and avatars?
With so much written about AIDS and HIV, and more recently anti-retrovirals (ARVs), it is sometimes difficult to remember a time before these acronyms, or to trace their transitions from signifiers of...
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UCT initiative tackles healthcare worker shortage in Southern Cape
Responding to the urgent national call to increase the numbers of doctors in our country, particularly in rural areas, the Faculty of Health Sciences has joined forces with the Western Cape Department...
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Mineral law book bags meritorious award
Professor Hanri Mostert from the Department of Private Law has won the Meritorious Book Award for her monograph Mineral Law: Principles and Policy in Perspective (Juta 2012). Honoured: Prof Hanri...
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