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What makes us African? During Africa Month, UCT News asked for submissions from across the university community about what makes us African and how this informs what we do. 29 May 2020
Death to burial – COVID-19 risks live on Dr Marise Heyns has been travelling the length and breadth of the Western Cape province, training organisations on how to manage human remains in the context of COVID-19. 29 May 2020
COVID-19, ‘an opportunity for climate action’ Day two of UCT’s Africa Month Virtual Symposium unpacked climate change and the development nexus in Africa. 29 May 2020
Special COVID-19 app to screen SA’s workforce A partnership between UCT and the University of KwaZulu-Natal has delivered a special application that screens public and private sector employees’ readiness to attend work. 29 May 2020
Gaining knowledge through crisis The COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for innovation and collaboration in Africa – this was highlighted on the first day of the Africa Month Virtual Symposium on 27 May. 28 May 2020
The education of children with disabilities risks falling by the wayside The risk of exclusion for children with disabilities is even higher in this time of the COVID-19 crisis. 28 May 2020 Republished
SA’s COVID-19 response is hurting other health priorities South Africa can become a country that rationally adapts to a COVID-19-integrated world, taking into account all healthcare priorities, to the benefit of all her people. 28 May 2020 Republished
How a post-COVID-19 revival could kickstart Africa’s free trade area The COVID-19 pandemic could be an opportunity to advance the free trade area in a more developmental, inclusive and mutually beneficial way for African countries, says UCT’s Faizel Ismail. 27 May 2020 Republished
A smartphone app to improve engagement in HIV care UCT academics have devised a smartphone app supporting ongoing engagement in care during and after pregnancy, to prevent transmission of HIV to the baby and ensure the health of the mother. 27 May 2020
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Knowledge and Global Power: Making New Sciences in the South
Acts of Transgression
Mental Disorders Around the World: Facts and Figures from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Global Perspectives from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Geological Adventures in the Fairest Cape: Unlocking the Secrets of its Scenery
The Coroner's Wife
Building a Capable State: Service Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Ottoman Traces in Southern Africa: The Impact of Turkish Emissaries and Muslim Theologians
Creativity Explained: From Music and Art to Innovation in Business
Media, Geopolitics and Power: A View from the Global South
The Pain of Being a Woman: An in-depth research on recovery from sexual assault trauma
Retrenchment Law in South Africa
The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
The Equal Society: Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice
The Early Modern Global South in Print
The Visual Politics of Wars
Transnational Worlds of Power Journal: Proliferation of Journalism & Professional Standards Vol. 1. No. 1 2015
State/Society Synergy in Philippi, Cape Town
Communicating @ Work
Industrial Crystallization: Fundamentals and Applications
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