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Balancing a baby and the books
Rejoice Gorni, a student at UCT’s Graduate School of Business, returned to lectures just days after giving birth to complete her PGDip in management.
12 Dec 2019
December graduation 2019
The University of Cape Town will be celebrating the graduation of 1 960 of its students over six ceremonies on 12, 13 and 23 December.
12 Dec 2019
Chancellor Mrs Graça Machel concludes her term
Outgoing University of Cape Town Chancellor Mrs Graça Machel - who will conclude her term at the end of this year - was honoured at a special graduation ceremony on 12 December 2019.
12 Dec 2019
Epilepsy: a collaborative cure
A multidisciplinary team of UCT specialists is making sure that more and more patients with drug-resistant epilepsy are cured.
11 Dec 2019
PhD project weaves together narratives of slavery and incarceration
Maroon is a poetic and performative collaboration that recovers the memory of runaway slaves and interrogates contemporary issues of crime, gangsterism and incarceration.
11 Dec 2019
‘Education was my only hope’
Monica Damane, who will graduate on Thursday, 12 December, with her MSc in engineering says the road to this achievement has been far from easy.
11 Dec 2019
‘I refused to be called a failure’
Having endured personal setbacks and defied the odds, Furaha Abwe will graduate with his PhD in Architecture and Planning on Thursday, 12 December.
11 Dec 2019
Chancellor Machel served faithfully in crucial ambassadorial role
Chair of Council, Mr Sipho M Pityana, has paid tribute to outgoing UCT Chancellor, Mrs Graça Machel for
11 Dec 2019
UCT MSc engineering graduate establishes - decades later - why walls of granny's house in Lesotho were cracking
Monica Damane grew up wanting to know why the walls of her grandmother's house in Quthing, Lesotho were cracking and through hard work and determination she managed to answer this question while earning an MSc in engineering, specialising in geotechnical engineering, obtained through the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment.
11 Dec 2019
UCT to bid farewell to Chancellor Machel at summer graduation ceremonies
The University of Cape Town will bid farewell to Chancellor Graca Machel at this summer's graduation ceremonies, where approximately 1771 students are scheduled to graduate.
11 Dec 2019
Swimming upstream – the second-chance graduand
This week UCT celebrates its inspirational graduands, students such as staffer Nombuso Shabalala who reclaimed her life after a traumatic event had left her becalmed.
10 Dec 2019
Honorary doctorates at December graduation
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community about three honorary doctorates that will be presented at December graduation.
10 Dec 2019
UCT in top ten in national computing competition final
Two student-led teams from UCT have secured third and sixth place respectively in the national Centre for High Performance Computing’s Student Cluster Competition.
10 Dec 2019
Burn the boat to win the island
Having worked her way through to her doctoral studies, Delta Ndou will soon don the sought-after red robe to receive her PhD in Media Studies at UCT.
10 Dec 2019
Experimental economics fights global poverty
The surge of interest in experimental approaches in economics began in the early 1990s and has been influential in development economics.
10 Dec 2019
Wrapping up the academic year
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to UCT staff about wrapping up the academic year.
09 Dec 2019
Architecture and informality in Africa
Professor Tomà Berlanda discusses how architecture can learn from and inform self-built settlements.
09 Dec 2019
Dream big and apply yourself fully
Musa Kika arrived at UCT to study for an LLM, but his master’s was upgraded and he will be graduating in December with a PhD.
09 Dec 2019
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