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UCT takes steps to support national lockdown
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community with an update on UCT’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
24 Mar 2020
Best paper award for UCT TB vaccine research
A paper on TB vaccine research by UCT professors has been selected as the best paper of the year for 2019 by the International Society for Vaccines.
24 Mar 2020
TB: Scientists know a great deal, but there’s still more to learn
South Africa has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) infection globally, with almost 400 000 patients treated annually.
24 Mar 2020
Republished
More buses for students as UCT is set to close residences
More buses have been arranged by the University of Cape Town for students who have requested travel assistance in light of the looming national lockdown to commence at midnight on Thursday, 26 March 2020.
24 Mar 2020
Achieving new heights despite a debilitating setback
Despite the challenges of navigating campus on a prosthetic leg, Jamie Adams has received her second honours degree – this time in organisational psychology.
23 Mar 2020
UCT confirms fourth case of COVID-19
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community with an update on UCT’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
23 Mar 2020
VC makes urgent call to students to support COVID-19 response
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng makes an urgent call to students to support UCT’s COVID-19 response.
23 Mar 2020
Student scoops African ambassadorship
UCT student Soligah Solomons has been awarded an All-Africa Students Union SheGame Award 2020.
23 Mar 2020
Panic buying underscores South Africa's inequalities
In South Africa, the majority of consumers are unable to fill up a trolley in the best of times, let alone finance a serious stockpile.
23 Mar 2020
Republished
Fourth case of COVID-19 confirmed at UCT
The University of Cape Town confirms a fourth COVID-19 case at the institution. The latest case is of a postgraduate student. UCT previously confirmed three cases, all of them involving staff.
23 Mar 2020
Triumph through tragedy
After tragedy struck his family in 1999, civil engineering graduand Tsepiso Tshivhase says he reached “rock bottom” years later in his final year at UCT.
23 Mar 2020
The importance of confidentiality in managing reported cases of COVID-19
22 Mar 2020
Teaching and learning to continue online at UCT
The University of Cape Town is moving teaching and learning online to continue the academic programme during the second term of teaching and learning.
22 Mar 2020
UCT redefining the workplace in response to COVID-19
In line with the principle of social and physical distancing and in order to ensure the safety of staff, the University of Cape Town UCT is redefining the workplace to include working from home where appropriate.
22 Mar 2020
UCT urges confidentiality in COVID-19 cases
Based on the experience of three cases of staff members who tested positive for COVID-19, the University of Cape Town has called for confidentiality in relation to any reported cases.
22 Mar 2020
UCT confirms third case of COVID-19
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community with an update on UCT’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
21 Mar 2020
UCT confirms third case of COVID-19
The University of Cape Town confirms that a third staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. UCT has at this stage not had any student who has tested positive for COVID-19.
21 Mar 2020
Calls for fair pay and fair conditions in the gig economy
The Fairwork Project highlights the precarious nature of work in the South African gig economy and underlines the risks faced by gig workers in light of COVID-19.
20 Mar 2020
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