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50th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's
In 1966, then New York Senator Robert F Kennedy visited South Africa, bringing with him the hope that one day this country would abandon race politics - and a message that individual agency can change the world. The 50th anniversary of his visit will be commemorated at a special event at UCT on 4 June 2016 at 14:30 in Jameson Hall.
27 May 2016
Five-million-year-old baleen whales from the West Coast of South Africa
Today, whales are quite an attraction along our coastline. A new study, recently published in Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, Alcheringa, confirms that baleen whales were also part of the biodiversity in the waters along our coast, between 5-7million years ago.
26 May 2016
Professionalisation the tonic for municipalities' dysfunction
Violent service protests across the country reflect the disjuncture between the needs of civil society's poorest and local government's roll-out of resources and services. It's a topic close to Phindile Ntliziywana's heart. One of UCT's 6 New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP) participants, Ntliziywana's PhD examines how the public service, specifically local government, can be improved.
17 May 2016
From tree of life to web of life: How Google Images can help ecologists study evolution
Animals caught on camera by amateur photographers and posted on the web could become an important new tool for studying evolution and other ecological questions, researchers from South Africa have found. Their study - the first of its kind - is published today in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
12 May 2016