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‘Power-packed’ Oxford fellowship
Doctoral student Chikezie Uzuegbunam shared his research around the digital experiences of young Nigerians at the 2019 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute in the United Kingdom.
22 Aug 2019
Alarm over political threats to SA’s judiciary
Criticisms that threaten the constitutional role of SA’s courts, or the judges themselves, have become more menacing, with EFF leader Julius Malema a prime culprit.
22 Aug 2019
Republished
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Adam Haupt
On 31 July, Professor Adam Haupt presented a Vice-Chancellor's Inaugural Lecture: “Why does ‘success’ continue to elude contemporary Africa?”.
22 Aug 2019
Lessons from Shanghai
Two UCT students have returned from a month-long summer school in China where they and their peers learned both in and outside the classroom.
22 Aug 2019
Award-winning plastic pollution research
Takunda Chitaka has been walking Cape Town’s beaches and studying their litter to help re-frame thinking about the plastic types that end up as pollution.
22 Aug 2019
In remembrance: Marion Heap
The UCT Executive team writes to the UCT community about the passing of a colleague, Dr Marion Heap.
22 Aug 2019
Education and the complex shadow of our unjust past
Professor Thuli Madonsela, former Public Protector, currently the holder of the Law Faculty Trust Chair in Social Justice and a law professor at Stellenbosch University.
21 Aug 2019
2019 TB Davie Memorial Lecture
The 2019 TB Davie Memorial Lecture was presented by Dr Steven Salaita – a Palestinian-American scholar, author and public speaker, on 7 August 2019.
21 Aug 2019
‘Education was my secret weapon’
Dr Rachael Dangarembizi, a UCT postdoctoral research fellow, says becoming the head of her family as a teen was difficult, but that faith carried her through.
21 Aug 2019
EBE students’ ‘ultimate community development work’
A vacation project involving UCT engineering students captured critical water and sanitation infrastructure data to help a district municipality improve their asset management practices.
21 Aug 2019
UCT and CodeSpace expose high school learners to the world of coding
High school learners were given a chance to tackle coding and robotics during the winter school holiday in a one-week intensive programme run jointly by the University of Cape Town's (UCT) School of Information Technology and CodeSpace, a software training institute in Cape Town.
21 Aug 2019
UCT department promoting inclusivity through series of events
A series of events are taking place at the University of Cape Town this week to celebrate 25 years of championing Muslim women's religious authority. The Department of Religious Studies and the African Gender Institute, together with American Muslim philosopher Emeritus Professor Amina Wadud, are seeking to promote inclusivity in Islam during the Gender Ethics and Religious Authority 2019 Programme.
21 Aug 2019
Five UCT open online courses in the top 100 of all time globally
Five University of Cape Town (UCT)'s massive open online courses (MOOCs) have made the Class Central list of the Top Free Online Courses Of All Time, based on tens of thousands of user reviews.
21 Aug 2019
‘Lady Imam’ on 25 years of the Gender Jihad
Islamic feminist and philosopher Professor Amina Wadud reflects on 25 years of championing Muslim women’s religious authority.
20 Aug 2019
UCT team’s central role in R5-bn settlement
UCT academics played an important role in South Africa’s historic R5-billion settlement for gold miners who contracted silicosis and/or pulmonary TB at work.
20 Aug 2019
UCT tops in Africa in all five major rankings
UCT took the top spot in South Africa and jumped back into the 201–300 band in the latest ShanghaiRankingʼs Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019.
20 Aug 2019
Reflecting on the past few months
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community about the the past few months.
20 Aug 2019
UCT partners with Motsepe Foundation on gender equality event
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is partnering with the Motsepe Foundation and three other universities to host a dialogue on gender equality this afternoon. The Universities in Dialogue event, under the topic
20 Aug 2019
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