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Ebola a blueprint for African philanthropy in COVID-19 crisis
Philanthropic responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Africa should be guided by the blueprint that Ebola provided in West Africa, said Carl Manlan, chief operating officer of the EcoBank Foundation in Togo. He was one of three speakers in the final session of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Africa Month Virtual Symposium.
04 Jun 2020
UCT academic gets dual honours from international communication body
UCT's Centre for Film and Media Studies director, Professor Herman Wasserman, has received two honours from the International Communication Association, the world’s largest academic association for those engaged in the broad discipline of communication.
04 Jun 2020
New study explores establishing a new Bearded Vulture population in South Africa
The Bearded Vulture is one of the most threatened vultures in southern Africa with only around 100 breeding pairs left in the wild. While the species could once be found in both the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, its range is now restricted to the Maluti-Drakensberg mountains of Lesotho and South Africa.
03 Jun 2020
UCT students to receive 100% fee rebate on dropped courses
The University of Cape Town Council has decided that students who drop courses between now and Friday, 5 June 2020, will receive a 100% fee rebate.
02 Jun 2020
Special COVID-19 screening tool for workers developed
Public health specialists at UCT, in collaboration with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, have developed a useful screening tool that assesses whether workers are healthy enough to return to work.
01 Jun 2020
Giant mustelids roamed South Africa 5 million years ago - study
Over five million years ago wolf-sized otters and leopard-sized relatives of living wolverines (members of the weasel family that look more like badgers than wolves) lived along the West Coast of South Africa. This is according to recent discoveries by scientists at the University of Cape Town and Iziko Museums of SA.
01 Jun 2020
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