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TLC2025 provisional programme and abstracts
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) year-end examinations commenced on Tuesday, 4 November 2025 and will continue until Friday, 21 November 2025. Ahead of these exams, various departments have collaborated to plan logistical arrangements to ensure operations proceed as smoothly as possible.
07 Nov 2025
UCT professor charts a journey of science, service and mentorship in pathology
Professor Komala Pillay of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences delivered her inaugural lecture titled “Give the Path Less Travelled a Chance – It May Turn Out to Be Magical” on 30 October 2025, tracing her remarkable journey into anatomical pathology, a field that, though often underappreciated, forms the backbone of modern medicine.
07 Nov 2025
Media release
UCT celebrates 20 years of building vaccinology capacity across Africa
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Vaccines for Africa Initiative (VACFA) marked a major milestone on Sunday, 2 November 2025, by hosting the 20th Annual African Vaccinology Course (AAVC) and celebrating two decades of advancing vaccinology training and collaboration across the continent.
06 Nov 2025
Media release
People living with HIV at higher risk of multi-drug TB
A major study led by researchers at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) School of Public Health found that people living with HIV (PLHIV) are at a higher risk of developing multi-drug or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) than HIV-negative individuals – with those living with advanced HIV up to three times more likely to develop the resistant strain.
04 Nov 2025
Media release
UCT to host Western Cape Built Environment Stakeholder Engagement Roadshow
The University of Cape Town (UCT), in partnership with the Council for the Built Environment (CBE) and the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI), will host the Western Cape Built Environment Stakeholder Engagement Roadshow (BESER). This event is part of a national series aimed at strengthening collaboration and promoting professional excellence across South Africa’s built environment sector.
04 Nov 2025
Media release
Year-end examinations update
UCT’s year-end examinations commenced on Tuesday, 4 November 2025 and will continue until Friday, 21 November 2025. Ahead of these exams, various departments have collaborated to plan logistical arrangements to ensure operations proceed as smoothly as possible.
04 Nov 2025
UCT lecture to examine how regulatory frameworks influence perceptions of financial stability
Trust is the invisible backbone of global finance, but what happens when the systems built to uphold it begin to falter? In his upcoming inaugural lecture, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Phillip De Jager will examine how regulatory frameworks such as the Basel Capital Accords and the International Financial Reporting Standard influence perceptions of financial stability. He will ask how well these systems capture economic reality and what happens when they fail to do so.
04 Nov 2025
Media release