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UCT art collection: more than décor Take a closer look at a few choice pieces of art around campus. 27 Oct 2025
Vibrant tribute to Prof Jay Pather’s transformative artistry UCT hosted a performance celebration to honour Prof Jay Pather’s contribution to scholarship and arts in South Africa and beyond. 27 Oct 2025
Cannabis boom in SA: who is benefitting? Cannabis is booming as an ingredient in everything – but is this benefiting indigenous cannabis farmers in southern Africa? 27 Oct 2025 Republished
UCT hosts dialogue on values in higher education Higher education leaders came together at UCT to discuss values-based leadership and reimagine universities as catalysts for ethical and sustainable change. 27 Oct 2025
“Cooperation over competition” UCT VC invited higher education partners to deliberately collaborate in answering the world’s grand challenges. A call-to-action he extended at the 2025 summit where UCT was announced as the 2026 THE WAS hosts – in collaboration with UoB. 24 Oct 2025
Revisiting South Africa’s first black-owned newspaper A team of UCT academics and an alumna are collaborating with journalists, creatives, and others to revisit and reimagine ‘Imvo Zabantsundu’, the first black-owned newspaper in South Africa. 24 Oct 2025
Research powers insights into sustainable housing A team of investigators from UCT’s Energy Systems Research Group is leading an international study on the use of energy in affordable and social housing. 24 Oct 2025
UCT spinout selected into global fellowship to drive clean fuel innovation A spinoff company by a team of UCT researchers has won the coveted Breakthrough Energy Fellowship to create sustainable, climate-friendly fuels. 24 Oct 2025
Discipline, dreams: top athletes crowned UCT athletes, coaches and teams took turns celebrating one another at the sports awards evening on 21 October.  23 Oct 2025
How three minutes helps postgraduates master scientific literacy The Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for postgraduates challenges them to explain their often complex research to a non-specialist audience in a couple of minutes. 23 Oct 2025
Applications open for Design Thinking Week The d-school Afrika has opened applications for the Design Thinking Week programme – and it’s free for all higher education students across South African universities.  23 Oct 2025
‘Zest for entrepreneurship’ fuels student marketplace A zest for entrepreneurship and a student marketplace: meet UCT’s Thando Mzimela-Ntuli.  23 Oct 2025
Hearts, minds and deep dialogue on ‘living values’ in higher education UCT VC Prof Mosa Moshabela hosted vice-chancellors, chancellors and SRC presidents from around the country for the Values in Higher Education Conversations. 22 Oct 2025
The UCT art collection: past and present UCT’s art collection is both a historical and ever-evolving university project, with bigger aims and challenges than just decoration. 22 Oct 2025
Lighting the flame of change UCT hosted its inaugural Student Leadership Induction on 18 October, empowering newly elected student leaders not just with skills to fulfil their roles but also capacitating them to align their work to the university vision and strategy. 21 Oct 2025
Travel between African countries is still hard: fresh ideas to get movement flowing It remains too difficult for Africans to travel between African countries. Africa-wide reforms have failed. Here’s how to get movement flowing. 21 Oct 2025 Republished
Staging the baby business An unchecked reproduction global marketplace was the topic of Prof Amrita Pande’s inaugural lecture. 20 Oct 2025
Legacy, laughter and lifelong bonds UCT residences Kopano and Leo Marquard celebrated their 80th and 50th anniversaries, respectively, bringing together former and current students to reminisce and plot the future. 20 Oct 2025
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