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VC launches substantial scholarships for women
Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has launched three substantial scholarships for women, focused on gender issues. The launch was part of a UCT National Women’s Day event.
10 Aug 2018
UCT for womxn by womxn
As part of celebrating National Women’s Day, Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng launched three substantial scholarships for women that focus on gender issues.
10 Aug 2018
Archie Mafeje’s legacy honoured
Archie Mafeje was a revolutionary thinker, a man ahead of his time, Professor Shahid Vawda said in his Vice-Chancellor’s Inaugural Lecture.
10 Aug 2018
Epic opportunities at Job Expo
This year’s Epic Job Expo, the largest careers fair held at UCT to date, hosted 100 exhibitors keen to attract promising graduates to their companies.
10 Aug 2018
Comic strip solution to complex contracts
Comic contracts that use pictures to cut through intimidating legal text can fill a critical communication gap, traversing cultural and literacy barriers.
10 Aug 2018
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Minibus taxis crucial in public transport overhaul
With minibus taxis key to public transport solutions, it’s critical that authorities concentrate on broadening existing collaborations that prove co-operation with the traditionally reviled sector is possible.
08 Aug 2018
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Fuller gears up for 90th celebrations
The Fuller Hall community of students and alumni is gearing up to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the women's residence on Saturday, 11 August.
08 Aug 2018
100 new faces for 100UP
A new cohort of grade 10 learners from Khayelitsha have recently joined UCT’s 100UP programme, which mentors them through matriculation, into university and beyond.
08 Aug 2018
The blue in blue diamonds could be from the sea
Ancient rock transported from the bottom of the ocean to deep below Earth’s crust may be responsible for the beautiful colour of blue diamonds.
07 Aug 2018
Solution Space fintech start-up weekend
The Graduate School of Business Solution Space and MTN will host a fintech start-up weekend in Cape Town from 17 to 19 August.
07 Aug 2018
How to change the Constitution: all the details
Changing the Constitution is more difficult than passing or altering ordinary laws. But prescribed procedures have already seen this supreme law amended 17 times since 1996.
07 Aug 2018
Republished
IRTC hearings recorded on 6 August 2018
Watch the IRTC hearings recorded on 6 August 2018.
07 Aug 2018
Family lays Professor Bongani Mayosi to rest
The family of the late Professor Bongani Mayosi held a funeral service in the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Saturday 4 August to bid him a final farewell.
07 Aug 2018
Safety survey formula skews SA ranking
Questionable global safety rankings suggesting life is South Africa is more dangerous than in war-torn countries like Yemen and Libya threaten local economic growth and development.
07 Aug 2018
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An open letter to Civil Engineering Magazine and the SAICE
Professor Alison Lewis, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, writes an open letter to Civil Engineering Magazine and the SAICE.
06 Aug 2018
Open letter
GSB committed to advancing women in business
This Women’s Month, the UCT Graduate School of Business is focusing on empowering and promoting women in business at all levels in the economy.
06 Aug 2018
Prof Mayosi remembered with tributes and introspection
Thousands of people came from far and wide to honour UCT’s Dean of Health Sciences Professor Bongani Mayosi at a moving funeral service held in Cape Town on Saturday.
06 Aug 2018
UCT bids farewell to Professor Bongani Mayosi
Students and staff of the University of Cape Town (UCT) joined the family, colleagues and close friends of the late Professor Bongani Mayosi to celebrate his life and work.
06 Aug 2018
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