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Updates on UCT’s response to COVID-19
20 Mar 2020
UCT alumni build ‘Coronapp’ platform
Coronapp, built by two UCT alumni, is a centralised repository for information on the COVID-19 disease in South Africa.
20 Mar 2020
Update on UCT changes in teaching and learning in response to COVID-19
20 Mar 2020
An African in London – poetry of disconnection
To highlight World Poetry Day on 21 March, UCT News is featuring works from the campus community, including PhD candidate Resoketswe Manenzhe.
20 Mar 2020
Infographic: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
UCT’s COVID-19 infographic will help you to understand the crisis and know who to contact.
20 Mar 2020
Selective dorsal rhizotomy 30 years on
UCT’s Dr Nelleke Langerak shares the findings of selective dorsal rhizotomy gait analyses 30 years after the study first began.
20 Mar 2020
Water in the Anthropocene in South Africa
As South Africa’s Water Week continues, Dr Kevin Winter from UCT’s Future Water institute considers South Africa’s current and future water situation.
20 Mar 2020
‘Nothing could stop me from success’
Chemical engineering graduate-in-waiting Jabulani Nyathi says students should not be afraid to seek help when university life becomes too overwhelming.
20 Mar 2020
Climate change and southern Africa’s emerging food crisis
UCT researchers explore whether climate change is responsible for the late rains and drought currently affecting Mozambique, Zimbabwe and southern Zambia.
20 Mar 2020
UCT Human Resources and COVID-19
19 Mar 2020
Update on how teaching & learning is responding to COVID-19
19 Mar 2020
Careers Service walks the talk on graduate employment
UCT Careers Service recently welcomed its 2020 cohort of Peer Career Support staff members.
19 Mar 2020
‘Poetry heals wounds’
Ahead of World Poetry Day on 21 March, UCT’s Dr Rethabile Possa-Mogoera says poetry plays a vital role in language maintenance and preservation.
19 Mar 2020
UCT confirms second COVID-19 case
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community with an update on UCT’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
19 Mar 2020
UCT shares plans for online teaching and learning
The University of Cape Town has shared plans to move undergraduate courses online in all faculties – except in Health Sciences, for which a specific plan is being developed. Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor Lis Lange, indicated in an update to the university community that UCT will have to teach remotely during the second term.
19 Mar 2020
Mom juggles challenges to thrive in disability studies
A desire to learn more about disability in education inspired Sarah Oosthuizen to immerse herself in online courses and sign up for UCT’s Postgraduate Diploma in Disability Studies.
19 Mar 2020
UCT charters transport to assist students
The University of Cape Town executive confirmed on Monday, 16 March 2020 that arrangements have been put in place to assist students vacating residences.
19 Mar 2020
UCT confirms second COVID-19 case
The University of Cape Town confirms that a staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. This is this the second confirmed case of COVID-19 at UCT.
19 Mar 2020
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