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Meet mover and shaker Itumeleng Mpofu
One Day Leader SA is a leadership and debate reality show that airs on SABC1 every Monday at 16:30. In the vigorous selection process, Itumeleng Mpofu, a third-year politics, philosophy and economics student, worked his way from the top 500 all the way up to the top six.
10 Mar 2017
Decolonising law series on the cards
10 Mar 2017
UCT researchers discover heart-attack gene
Fifty years after South Africa performed the world's first successful heart transplant‚ researchers at UCT's Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa (HICRA), through global collaboration, have identified a new gene that is a major cause of sudden death among young people and athletes. Maryam Fish‚ Gasnat Shaboodien and Sarah Kraus make up the all-female UCT team that made the discovery.
10 Mar 2017
New ranking shows which SA banks contribute most to systemic risk
09 Mar 2017
Development Studies at UCT in Global Top 10 for a Third Year Running
08 Mar 2017
Zabalaza strives for success
Loosely translated, Zabalaza Intsika eBaxter Theatre, means two things: striving towards being a pillar of the Baxter Theatre Centre and striving towards success.
08 Mar 2017
Adapting to water scarcity
07 Mar 2017
Sugar tax is not pie in the sky
07 Mar 2017
Studying development at UCT just got easier
07 Mar 2017
Love turned to hate
In a context of the pervasive silencing, rape and murder of lesbian womxn, director and writer Phyllis Klotz presents the testimony of over forty South African lesbian womxn, given voice by four courageous performers.
04 Mar 2017
Appeal to Southern Suburbs homeowners for accommodation for UCT students
04 Mar 2017
Success for Next Generation Professoriate
Four candidates from the Next Generation Professoriate (NGP) have been promoted to professor or associate professor level in the most recent round of ad hominem promotions.
03 Mar 2017
Acclaimed author to spend a week at UCT
Professor Jacqueline Rose, a renowned scholar of the intersection of feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and politics, will spend a week at UCT this month, culminating in her delivering the Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture on 16 March.
03 Mar 2017
HIV centre lands huge Zimele Project
The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, whose HIV Centre is based at UCT, has been chosen to implement the Zimele Project, a multi-dimensional health and social intervention programme for young people aged 10–24 years.
02 Mar 2017
Tutpack to connect UCT students and tutors
The search for the perfect tutor has become an easier task thanks to Tutpack, a web application that simplifies transactions between students and tutors within UCT.
01 Mar 2017
UCT's Bertha Centre in global top five
A Bridgespan Group report has placed the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship among the world's top five centres for social impact, a significant achievement for the Graduate School of Business's five-year-old centre. It is also the only centre in an emerging economy to be featured in the report.
01 Mar 2017
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