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SHAWCO: 75 years of giving back
SHAWCO is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a fundraising drive to secure future efforts to promote healthcare and education in the community.
28 Feb 2018
Making it through the water crisis
Associate Professor Lesley Green warns against selfish survivalism in the face of the water crisis, and urges communities to band together and care for one another.
28 Feb 2018
Small plastic pollution on SA beaches
A UCT study has found that most of the plastic polluting South Africa's beaches and coastal waters has not drifted here from distant nations.
27 Feb 2018
100 students make a summer (school)
A special Summer School lecture series introduced a cohort of potential students from UCT’s Schools Improvement Initiative’s 100UP programme to campus life.
27 Feb 2018
UCT Libraries taps into water-saving campaign
Installing low-flow metered taps, encouraging staff to bring their own water to work and turning off HydroBoils are some of UCT Libraries' water-saving strategies.
26 Feb 2018
Annus mirabilis for refugee clinic’s Khan
Each year, Refugee Rights Unit director Fatima Khan tackles a large project. In 2017 she outdid herself, completing a PhD, editing a new book and undertaking a pilgrimage.
26 Feb 2018
Finding opportunity in the water crisis
Associate Professor Lesley Green outlines ways in which the water crisis could prompt Cape Town to build a greener and more environmentally resilient city.
21 Feb 2018
VC candidate presentations
The two shortlisted candidates for the position of new Vice-Chancellor of UCT gave their presentations to members of various campus constituencies this morning.
21 Feb 2018
Day Zero is meant to cut Cape Town’s water use: what is it, and is it working?
The possibility of reaching Day Zero - and the devastating consequences that it will bring - has focused everyone's attention on tightly managing water consumption.
20 Feb 2018
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Help keep Day Zero at bay
You can do a lot in your office to keep Day Zero at bay. These five simple tips will help you start saving water today.
20 Feb 2018
SAICE award for urine research project
Graduate Tinashe Chipako has won the 2018 South African Institution of Civil Engineering National Investigative Project Showdown for his research project on waterless urinals at UCT.
20 Feb 2018
Get involved, says Oxford-bound scholarship winner
As an international student, Chanda Chungu’s determination to engage fully in student life at UCT set the foundations for the graduate’s Beit Trust Scholarship to study at Oxford.
19 Feb 2018
Blockchain hackathon winners
Two UCT students were part of a team that won the recent Unlock the Block blockchain hackathon, hosted by the AIFMRM and Linum Labs.
16 Feb 2018
Dual desalination could increase water yield
Though currently expensive, eutectic freeze crystallisation, a process used to treat mine waste water, could boost fresh water yields from seawater following desalinisation.
16 Feb 2018
Sustaining live art in Africa
In a bid to connect performance artists across the continent, the Institute for Creative Arts is launching the Live Art Network Africa.
15 Feb 2018
Grant drives genomic research
Professor Ambroise Wonkam has been awarded major grant funding that will help drive research into the genetics of non-syndromic hearing loss in Africans.
14 Feb 2018
Do pain and threat go hand in hand?
Could living in a threatening environment contribute to a person’s experience of persistent pain? This is what postdoctoral researcher Dr Victoria Madden aims to determine.
14 Feb 2018
Alumni take flight in When Swallows Cry
Two UCT alumni star in the poignant new piece by celebrated playwright Mike van Graan, When Swallows Cry, at the Baxter Theatre Centre.
13 Feb 2018
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