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Decolonising the archive
31 Mar 2017
Stakes for South Africa's democracy are high as Zuma plunges the knife
31 Mar 2017
Distinguished Teacher Awards 2016
31 Mar 2017
What the Constitution says about land restitution
31 Mar 2017
Time to see TB patients as true champions in the fight against the disease
Nearly 70 years ago , a range of antibiotics that could treat tuberculosis were first identified.
31 Mar 2017
Chair of Council warns against racial chauvinism
31 Mar 2017
Put students at the heart of pedagogy
Distinguished Teacher Awardee Dr Janice McMillan's work is not discipline-specific; rather it's about transformative teaching and how we engage the wider world beyond the university. This community-based learning encourages students to think about themselves simultaneously as students, emerging professionals and active citizens.
30 Mar 2017
Archie Mafeje: never to be forgotten
In May of 1968 the UCT Council approved the appointment, unanimously, of Archie Mafeje to the role of senior lecturer in social anthropology. But one month later, and following significant pressure from the apartheid government, the council was forced to rescind its offer.
30 Mar 2017
UCT alumni win at SAFTAs
The South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) ceremony, which was hosted at Sun City at the end of March, is a significant event in the South African film industry calendar. Two alumni from the Centre for Film and Media Studies who were nominated for awards won in their categories.
30 Mar 2017
Peace and Conflict scholar appointed to Van Zyl Slabbert Chair
30 Mar 2017
Bird-watching society now in full flight
30 Mar 2017
Why South Africa’s courts cannot rein in a delinquent government
South Africans sighed with relief when the Constitutional Court recently handed down a judgment in the country’s social grant saga , averting a catastrophic constitutional crisis.
30 Mar 2017
Henning Snyman: 1938–2017
Daar is min letterkundiges wat so insigryk oor die digkuns kon skryf as HJ Snyman, oftewel Henning Snyman.
29 Mar 2017
Primary healthcare bible piloted in Brazil
29 Mar 2017
Renamed Knowledge Commons honours struggle librarian
District Six-born community librarian</strong><strong> Vincent Kolbe has taken a place of honour on UCT's upper campus. This follows the renaming of the Knowledge Commons in the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library as the Vincent Kolbe Knowledge Commons on 23 March.
29 Mar 2017
How to make an Internet of Intelligent Things work for Africa
Late in 2016 Senegal’s Banque Regionale De Marches announced the launch of the eCFA Franc; a cryptocurrency for the ...
29 Mar 2017
Five branding mistakes you should avoid in your small business
Small and medium enterprises tend to underestimate the power of branding. This must rank as one of the deadliest mistakes in the world of making business.
29 Mar 2017
UCT ecologist wins British Ecological Society prize
29 Mar 2017
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