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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
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
‘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
‘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
Stakeholders come first in event management UCTʼs event management students recently heard firsthand from senior marketing manager Aloy Gowne just what goes into planning a high-profile event at the university. 19 Aug 2019
Rattling conventional thinking on evolution Research by Professor Rebecca Ackermann shows that our huge diversity results from two other major evolutionary forces, in addition to natural selection. 19 Aug 2019
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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
Principles of Criminal Law
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