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Wildlife solutions for a crowded planet
A centuries-long war has been ongoing in the Western Cape province of South Africa...
25 Nov 2016
Humboldt fellowship for Jethro
24 Nov 2016
How justice can be brought to South Africa’s rooibos industry
There are political, environmental and social controversies associated with that most delectable of South African beverages: rooibos tea.
24 Nov 2016
Africa's health won't improve without reliable data and collaboration
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that “all people are born equal in dignity and rights”.
24 Nov 2016
Sleepless nights for the Deputy Registrar's office
A total of 1 226 students took up the opportunity to defer their full set of exams until January 2017, while an additional 4 000 students have applied to defer some, but not all of their exams.
23 Nov 2016
UCT establishes Rapid Response Task Team
23 Nov 2016
Peace parks and people’s rights
Southern Africa’s peace parks have given animals a regional passport to move freely across international borders.
23 Nov 2016
The first time I visited CERN, I was speechless – Chilufya Mwewa
Every year, CERN’s ATLAS project awards a special PhD grant to between three and eight young researchers from around the world.
23 Nov 2016
New lens on how Middle Stone Age stone tools were used
One of the most commonly surviving artefacts of Middle Stone Age sites are the triangular stone points our early ancestors used to go about their daily business of survival. But what they were used for exactly, whether as butchery tools, scrapers, spears or weapons, is less certain.
22 Nov 2016
Victoria Mxenge: A homeless people's struggle for dignity
Associate Professor Salma Ismail's book about the Victoria Mxenge Housing Project shows how “poor, vulnerable women who were semi-literate, from rural areas, who had settled on the outskirts of the city, gave a desolate piece of land life and built sustainable communities”.
21 Nov 2016
Cricket fundi and PhD student vies for Mr SA title
21 Nov 2016
A giant leap for astronomy, another giant leap for South Africa
Earlier this year, an international team of astronomers that included two South Africans managed to explore behind thick clouds of dust particles in the Milky Way ...
21 Nov 2016
Update on recent events at the University of Cape Town
21 Nov 2016
Shaping the next generation of scientists
21 Nov 2016
UCT's free medical books go platinum
18 Nov 2016
Fracking in the Karoo: pollution versus pay-off
18 Nov 2016
Luminous gamma-ray binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other facilities, an international team of scientists, including Dr Vanessa McBride and Dr Lee Townsend from UCT's Department of Astronomy, have discovered the first gamma-ray binary in a galaxy other than ours.
18 Nov 2016
Social impact bonds lead solutions for HE funding
Current funding models will not solve the higher education sector's funding crisis. But social impact bonds can provide an interesting financing mechanism to fund “wrap around” support for the country's poor and 'missing middle' students − and to ensure that students accessing higher education receive an equal opportunity to succeed.
17 Nov 2016
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