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Celebrating Africa Day at MASHA Prof Sheetal Silal welcomed the student cohort and staff of UCT’s MASHA to celebrate Africa Day and reflect on what it means to be African. 06 Jun 2023
UCT launches the ‘University of the Future’ project UCT launched the ‘University of the Future’ project on Wednesday, 31 May 2023. 05 Jun 2023
‘Go forth and build your dreams’, UCT student urges youth Sukainah McCabe, a fourth-year social work student, uses her social and community activism to empower youth living in under-resourced communities. 05 Jun 2023 Youth Month
Water justice conference to share arts-based dialogue in mobile interactive exhibit at UCT The University of Cape Town’s Centre for African Studies (CAS) Gallery will host the launch of Confluency – an interactive, transdisciplinary and mobile art exhibit created to engage diverse communities in water justice research and action – on Wednesday, 7 June 2023, from 17:00 to 19:00 at CAS, UCT’s Upper Campus. 05 Jun 2023
Our most effective interventions are immunological – Prof Elizabeth Mayne UCT’s head of the Division of Immunology in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Elizabeth Mayne, stressed the consequences of not keeping up with immunology and how it affects people. 02 Jun 2023
Africa Day: Celebrating music and family at the UCT Irma Stern Museum On 25 May the UCT Irma Stern Museum invited the families of UCT’s Philip Kgosana Residence to join the museum in a celebration of families, music and belonging. 02 Jun 2023
UCT ranks 9th in the world for SDG 6: clean water and sanitation UCT is in the top 200 universities worldwide in the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, with four areas ranked in the top 100. 02 Jun 2023
UCT launches the ‘University of the Future’ project On 31 May 2023, UCT set the stage for a groundbreaking initiative with the launch of the ‘University of the Future’ (UoF) project which was held at the Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika on UCT's Middle Campus. 01 Jun 2023
South Africa’s first youth violence-prevention centre gets green light University of Cape Town (UCT) student and community activist Zukile Ntentema has set the wheels in motion to establish the first youth violence-prevention centre on home soil. This example of an anti-crime initiative successfully adopted in the Global North will be housed at UCT, and will support government, law enforcement agencies and civil society to effectively monitor crime trends in the Mother City, and to inform new, targeted crime prevention strategies aimed at the youth. 01 Jun 2023
UCT to house South Africa’s first youth violence-prevention centre The centre will develop Afrocentric, evidence-based strategies and interventions to fight crime. 01 Jun 2023
UCT’s Child Protection Week 2023 expert list The following academics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) can be contacted by the media for comment during Child Protection Week 2023. 31 May 2023
Study finds trading time restrictions for onsite alcohol retailers in Western Cape will save lives A team of researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT), led by Samantha Filby, recently collaborated with the DG Murray Trust to conduct a modelling study that estimated the health and economic impacts of restricting the trading hours of retailers selling alcohol for onsite consumption in the Western Cape. 31 May 2023
Disability Service publishes its first online magazine UCT’s Disability Service recently produced their first online magazine. 31 May 2023
University of the Future launch and other updates The University of Cape Town (UCT) will launch the University of the Future (UoF) project this afternoon, Wednesday, 31 May 2023. Read about this and other recent developments on campus. 31 May 2023
Groundbreaking study shows lifesaving solution dramatically reduces severe bleeding after childbirth A new solution, known as E-MOTIVE, could provide a major breakthrough in reducing deaths from childbirth-related bleeding, according to a landmark study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine . 31 May 2023
University of the Future The University of the Future (UoF) project aims to create a modern, vibrant, and attractive campus designed to attract the very best staff and student talent, local businesses, donors, industry interest and the broader community. 30 May 2023
UCT Council accepts resignation of Chair UCT Council writes to the UCT community about the resignation of the Chair, Ms Babalwa Ngonyama. 30 May 2023 Chair of Council
More than one in 10 adults in urban South Africa have tried e-cigarettes, survey finds Ahead of World No Tobacco Day on 31 May, a new survey, the South African E-Cigarette Survey 2022, has revealed that more than one in 10 (11.3%) adults in urban South Africa have tried e-cigarettes, and 4% of adults were regular e-cigarette users at the time of the survey. 30 May 2023
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