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“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

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

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

IDM Africa’s first My Green Lab-certified academic research institute The IDM has become the first academic research institute in Africa to achieve My Green Lab certification. 17 Oct 2025

Professional athletes, gambling the latest study frontier Dr Sharief Hendricks reflects on how studying professional athletes and gambling may have positive policy outcomes. 17 Oct 2025

Free design thinking programme offered to higher education staff UCT’s d-school Afrika has opened applications for the Fast-Forward for the Higher Education Professionals Programme – and it’s free for all higher education staff members. 17 Oct 2025

Espousing transcultural mental health approaches Transcultural mental health was the theme at this year’s World Mental Health Day at UCT. 15 Oct 2025

Prof Ramugondo: a beacon of hope Prof Elelwani Ramugondo received the WomenCan Beacon of Hope Award for her ongoing role in creating positive, meaningful and lasting change in her community. 15 Oct 2025

Historic botanical treasure donated to UCT UCT recently hosted an event of gratitude to mark the donation of a facsimile edition of the ‘Flora de la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (1783–1816)’ to the Bolus Herbarium. 14 Oct 2025

Teaching Against the Odds: UCT honours 20 years of inspiration UCT marked the 20th anniversary of the Stella Clark Teachers’ Award by celebrating South Africa’s educators who, against all odds, continue to ignite minds, transform lives, and shape the nation’s future. 13 Oct 2025

Celebrating ‘society’s quiet heroes’ UCT celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Stella Clark Teacher’s Award in style, bringing together past winners and their nominators to reflect on the state of education. 13 Oct 2025

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