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Mine closures: Addressing the fallout
Interventions are essential to assist communities left devastated by South Africa’s mining downturn, which has seen 6 000 mines abandoned in the past two decades.
16 Jul 2018
Republished
Successfully fighting fake news
Winning the battle against fake news will take a combination of both technology and people power, so make sure you flag it when you see it.
13 Jul 2018
Republished
UCT team wins national hackathon
A team of four UCT Information Systems honours students won the 2018 Discovery Graduate Hackathon for a system designed to connect informal workers with potential employers.
13 Jul 2018
Winter 2018 graduation highlights
Winter graduation saw over 350 graduands, including nearly 60 PhDs, gather in Memorial Hall on Friday, 22 June 2018.
13 Jul 2018
Teen TB vaccine trial offers new hope
Revaccination of teens with the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine they first got as babies could be key to driving down South Africa’s shocking tuberculosis rates.
13 Jul 2018
A sharper focus on cyber security
The Cyber Security Symposium Africa held at UCT this week brought together security experts to share knowledge and ideas, and identify potential collaborations.
12 Jul 2018
Ekso suit gives disabled patients new hope
Robert Evans, a PhD candidate in exercise science and sports medicine at UCT, explains the benefits of the Ekso suit, a mobility device used in physical rehabilitation.
12 Jul 2018
Water-sensitive design win
UCT master’s student Boipelo Madonsela has won an award for the Most Promising Research for her work on integrating water-sensitive design into the urban environment.
10 Jul 2018
Sixth annual July School a success
The LSE–UCT July School offers participants an opportunity to learn about Africa from within Africa, and gain insights into issues relevant to the continent.
10 Jul 2018
Calls to ease water restrictions premature
Western Cape dams may be over 50% full, but that’s still not a good enough reason to immediately ease water restrictions says UCT’s Kevin Winter.
10 Jul 2018
SHAWCO AGM: Celebrating volunteerism
As SHAWCO nears its 75th anniversary, the annual general meeting reflected on the past year and celebrated volunteerism in its many forms.
09 Jul 2018
A decolonial history of food
Colonialism permeates language, knowledge and culture as well as the foods we plant (and eat), both at a subsistence level and for the marketplace.
09 Jul 2018
UCT welcomes Wikimania 2018
Around 700 of the best Wiki minds are Cape Town-bound, ready to do the hard work required to boost the African content on the popular knowledge platform.
09 Jul 2018
Launch of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance
University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng attended the launch of the renamed Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance in Rondebosch on 5 July 2018.
09 Jul 2018
Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance launched
UCT’s new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, has launched the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance to support excellence in leadership in Africa.
06 Jul 2018
Challenging the middle-class comfort zone
South Africans are being invited to check their privilege, courtesy of a new income comparison tool created by UCT economists.
06 Jul 2018
UCT crowns M&G’s top 200
UCT is well represented on the annual Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans list, with 51 of these exceptional people being university staff, students or alumni.
06 Jul 2018
UCT hosts first gesture studies conference in Africa
Emerging sign languages in Africa will be high on the agenda as signing and gesture experts from around the world meet in Cape Town this week.
05 Jul 2018
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