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CMD response to the AFC statement
31 Mar 2016
Struggle veterans recall Kennedy's 1966 “Ripple of Hope” speech
31 Mar 2016
Granville de la Cruz: 1954–2016
Mr Granville de la Cruz has died at the age of 62.
31 Mar 2016
UCT invites nominations for renaming buildings
University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price has invited students, staff members and alumni to present their views and arguments about whether certain names of buildings on campus should be changed or left as is, and if changed, to suggest alternative names.
31 Mar 2016
Why South Africa isn’t cashing in on its demographic dividend
South Africa has very high unemployment levels.
30 Mar 2016
VC Desk: Naming of Buildings
Released: 14h40, 30 March 2016
30 Mar 2016
Academic Freedom Committee statement
30 Mar 2016
How sexting is creating a safe space for millennials
Millennials have become cyborgs .
30 Mar 2016
Why southern Africa’s peace parks are sliding into war parks
Many books have been written on peace and war.
30 Mar 2016
Double earthquake trouble
A group of international researchers, including UCT seismologist Dr Alastair Sloan, have shown that ruptures from earthquakes...
30 Mar 2016
Why democracy should be taught in South African schools
Research has revealed that South African learners born after the end of apartheid, the so-called ‘born-free’ generation...
30 Mar 2016
Scientists at UCT and the University of California, San Francisco, uncover the genomic blueprint of bat wing development
30 Mar 2016
A lesson in persistence
29 Mar 2016
Scientists at UCT and the University of California, San Francisco, uncover the genomic blueprint of bat wing development
An international team of scientists from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has for the first time identified both genes and gene regulatory elements that are essential in wing development in the Natal long-fingered bat (Miniopterus natalensis), a species widely distributed in east and southern Africa.
29 Mar 2016
VC Desk: Resignation of Professor Walter Baets from GSB
Released: 15h30, 24 March 2016
24 Mar 2016
UCT in top 10 in world subject rankings
24 Mar 2016
Pioneering research gives hope to bereft families
23 Mar 2016
The fight against TB shifts to fixing the immune system, not only bacteria
Tuberculosis (TB) has managed to remain a major global health problem, despite 100 years of research and more than 50 years of treatment being available.
23 Mar 2016
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