UCT applauds its young affiliates who appear on the ‘M&G’s’ Top 200 Young South Africans list for 2023.

With millions of South Africa’s young people desperate for jobs and opportunities to develop, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Mechanical Engineering has a story of hope to tell.

Dr Daniel Ramotsoela is a ‘Science Oscars’ finalist and remains focused on strengthening cyber-security research as hacking becomes a real threat in an advancing digital world.

Fifty percent of the NSTF’s top 26 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) matriculants from 2022 are studying at UCT.

Alex Pasqualli has not allowed her disability to get in the way of achieving success, and she encourages the youth to take a leaf out of her book.

Graduate Yaaseen Samuels’s life has been overshadowed by an unseen disability. In Youth Month he shares his journey and a call for understanding and support.

The surge of transgender youth is a worldwide phenomenon as easily accessible information and neuroscientific developments help them understand who they are.

UCT’s head of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Assoc Prof Goodman Sibeko, and several partners have launched the web app ASSIST tool – a risk indicator for substance abuse.

Developed for a 2015 final-year student project, a DIY foam fire extinguisher to combat shack fires has been given a new lease of life.

UCT Children’s Institute, in collaboration with its partner organisations, has launched a petition to encourage government to improve mental health support services for children and adolescents.

Sukainah McCabe, a fourth-year social work student, uses her social and community activism to empower youth living in under-resourced communities.

The centre will develop Afrocentric, evidence-based strategies and interventions to fight crime.