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Parliament picket sparks free-education debate
Hundreds of academics and students picketed outside Parliament on 22 September 2016 to implore the state to improve its funding of South Africa's higher education system.
23 Sep 2016
Quadruple awards for UCT brewers
It certainly wasn't heartbreak for the UCT team from chemical engineering who blew the judges away with their four category winners.
22 Sep 2016
Heritage tour spotlights city's little-known slave history
When arts graduate Amie Soudien visited the Western Cape Archives and Records Service in Roeland Street to trace her family history, she was frustrated by the patchy record of her genealogy.
21 Sep 2016
Students present demands at mass meeting
Under the banners of #BringBackOurCadres and Fees Must Fall, protesting students packed Jameson Hall on 19 September 2016 while UCT classes, lectures and tutorials remained suspended.
21 Sep 2016
Lobola and love: a film-maker's journey
Sihle Hlophe knew precious little of the rich and complex lives of her Bantu ancestors, until she visited the ancient Kingdom of Mapungubwe.
21 Sep 2016
University fees in South Africa: many questions, lots of anger, and fires to fight
South Africa's Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande has announced it is up to the country's universities to “individually…determine the level of (fee) increase that their institutions require…”.
20 Sep 2016
Award-winning paper: 'Valuing waste and wasting value'
Adam van Heerden from the School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics at UCT has won the Student Award at the 2016 Royal Town Planning Institute's (RTPI) Awards for Research Excellence.
20 Sep 2016
UCT Upstarts students to 're-educate education'
16 Sep 2016
MasterCard Foundation scholar wants to develop Lesotho
Thato Semoko, from Maputsoe, Lesotho, has always had an interest in creating things – it's what informed his choice to study electrical and computer engineering at UCT.
16 Sep 2016
Future of SA water looks brighter
South Africa is experiencing its worst drought in a century.
16 Sep 2016
Flying safe with UCT's legal eagle
Tamara Thomas is a final-year law student at UCT. She is also a lieutenant colonel in the South African Air Force (SAAF), and has been flying planes for more than a decade. Thomas shared a snippet of her story with Yusuf Omar.
16 Sep 2016
Same-sex marriage – assimilation or radicalisation?
Ten years after South Africa legalised marriage between same-sex couples, UCT sociology student Lwando Scott is on the cusp of finishing a doctorate that explores how the experiences and challenges of same-sex couples speak to the democratic and decolonisation projects.
15 Sep 2016
UCT honours stalwarts
15 Sep 2016
Memorials that go beyond boring statues of big-men-on-bronze-horses
The corner of Longmarket and Buitenkant Streets, Cape Town, is a popular public drinking spot in South Africa's largest coastal city.
15 Sep 2016
Herbivores triggered the grass revolution
The origin and spread of savannahs is one of the great mysteries of the earth's ecological histories, say botanists.
14 Sep 2016
Virtual reality will change the world. Here's what parents need to know
I've always been a nerd who loves technology and games. So when it emerged that virtual reality (VR) tech was becoming available to gamers, I was ecstatic.
13 Sep 2016
Remembering Steve Biko
12 September 2016 marks the 39th anniversary of Steve Biko's death in detention.
12 Sep 2016
Bianca Hansen: the entrepreneurial go-getter
BCom management student Bianca Hansen almost faced academic exclusion in her first year of study, but she persevered. Three years later, she now runs two successful businesses.
12 Sep 2016
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