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Eskom CEO saga highlights massive systems failure in South Africa The drama caused by the return of Brain Molefe into South Africa's power utility, Eskom, signals a failure of accountability and corporate governance within the public sector. 31 May 2017
USHEPiA 20-year publication launched on Africa Day The USHEPiA publication documents the story of how an intra-African capacity-building scholarship programme that started in 1996 came to be a ‘flagship’. 31 May 2017
More children than ever overweight and obese Globally, more children are overweight than under-nourished and stunted, said Professor Vicky Lambert following the Healthy Active Kids South Africa Report Card 2016 release. 31 May 2017
Before the storm breaks Playwright and actor Paul Slabolepszy and director Bobby Heaney, both UCT alumni, have teamed up again to create a distinctly South African experience in Suddenly the Storm. 31 May 2017
Mining for sustainable development Kabang’u Sakuwaha, a geoscientist and MPhil student, has received an African Development Bank grant to write commissioned papers on mining and sustainable development goals. 31 May 2017
Inflammatory proteins offer insights into how TB spreads in the lungs Tuberculosis – the bacterial lung disease – remains a leading global health problem more than a century after it was first discovered. 31 May 2017
Interrogating Free Decolonised Higher Education Funding Fort Hare’s Enver Motala calls for imaginative thinking towards a post-capitalist society in response to UCT’s Free Education Planning Group. 30 May 2017
Week 2 of the Free Education Planning Group Engagement Sessions The Free Education Planning Group will be entering the second week of engagement sessions ahead of the Fees Commission submission. 29 May 2017
What do you say to the dead? Louis Viljoen’s latest play, The Eulogists , premiers at the Fugard Theatre on 30 May, with a cast full of UCT alumni. 29 May 2017
Encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship A well-planned strategy and business pitch helped six UCT students land the title of FLUX 2017 champions at the entrepreneurship challenge on campus recently. 29 May 2017
‘Build a career – not just a job’ Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, DVC for research and internationalisation, had some sage career advice for a group of UCT’s brightest black scholars. 29 May 2017
Multilingualism is the African lingua franca UCT’s Dr Shannon Morreira, Dr Ellen Hurst and Associate Professor Mbulungeni Madiba propose translanguaging as a means of bringing students’ multilingual resources into the classroom. 29 May 2017
Betrayal of the promise: how South Africa is being stolen According to what media have termed an “explosive” research intensive report, South Africa has undergone a silent coup, removing the African National Congress from “its place as the primary force for transformation in society. 26 May 2017
Sub-Saharan middle class: R1.3tn per month and growing Groundbreaking study on the world's fastest-growing middle class. 26 May 2017
The science behind safe tackling Tackles are made almost every 30 seconds in rugby, causing half of rugby-related injuries. It’s time for science to become involved, says sports scientist Sharief Hendricks. 26 May 2017
Dolphins identified by their whistles A team of researchers has shown that passive acoustic monitoring can be hugely effective in keeping track of dolphin species in southern Africa. 26 May 2017
Dr Ian Little receives a ‘Green Oscar’ Dr Ian Little, recent winner of a 2017 Whitley Award, will use the prize money to upscale his ‘Custodians of South Africa’s threatened grassland biodiversity’ project. 26 May 2017
Report back on the facilitated workshop of the IRTC Steering Committee The Chair of the IRTC Steering Committee has submitted a letter on the committee's facilitated workshop of 20 May 2017. 26 May 2017
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