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UCT research makes case for protecting contract workers
There is a growing trend among South African firms to contract work out to miners, truck drivers, construction workers and clothing machinists, and to treat these contract workers as self-employed rather than staff workers under labour law. Many of these "self-employed" workers in turn employ others to help them complete a job. Research by Pamhidzai Bamu, a PhD graduand in Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town, broadly considers the development of this informal and precarious work in a global context.
12 Dec 2011
98% pass rate for UCT's MBChB grads
The graduating class of the MBChB degree programme for 2011 at the University of Cape Town has achieved a pass rate of 97.7 percent - including Vuyane Mhlomi from Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, who is graduating third in his class with an average in 2011 of 76.6 percent in his final year of study for the medical degree.
12 Dec 2011
Tutu unable to attend UCT grad ceremony today
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will not be attending the graduation ceremony this morning at the University of Cape Town, as he has not been released from hospital following a medical procedure over the weekend. UCT has no further details about his condition.
12 Dec 2011
Ten ways to have fun while learning this summer
09 Dec 2011
Winning projects make a difference
09 Dec 2011
First registrar in family medicine graduates
09 Dec 2011
Michaelis graduands go public
09 Dec 2011
Barendse siblings keep it in the family
09 Dec 2011
Marine science prizes for duo
09 Dec 2011
Poster attracts international attention
09 Dec 2011
Rhythm and meaning in perfect English
09 Dec 2011
Train nurses to curb TB, says student
09 Dec 2011
Wheelchair-bound student chalks up second degree
09 Dec 2011
Hebrew class a melting pot of cultures
09 Dec 2011
UCT research looks at the mate-swapping albatross, the non-conforming penguin and other fowl topics
Six doctoral students at the University of Cape Town have completed studies on southern African birdlife: 5 of them focusing on specific species, while the sixth travelled 160km on foot, collecting almost 1 million vegetation data points and more than 32,000 insects, and monitoring more than 400 birds' nests to calculate the diversity of grassland.
09 Dec 2011