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Use the gift of education to make a difference UCT’s December graduation season wrapped up with an inspiring speech from UCT alumnus, philanthropist and trail-blazing venture capitalist Annette-Campbell White. 18 Dec 2018
Faculties of EBE and Science graduation ceremony - 14 December at 18:00 The faculties of Engineering & the Built Environment and Science graduation ceremony was held at 18:00 on Friday, 14 December. 14 Dec 2018
Graduates must become ‘more African‘ The Faculty of Commerce’s graduation on Friday, 14 December, was a celebration of being African in a world undergoing unprecedented change. 14 Dec 2018
Faculty of Health Sciences graduation ceremony - 14 December at 14:00 The Faculty of Health Sciences graduation ceremony was held at 14:00 on Friday, 14 December. 14 Dec 2018
‘Set your super-power dials to “in service” ’ “Set your super-power dials to ‘in service’,” Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng told graduands at a special graduation ceremony where she was officially robed as Vice-Chancellor. 14 Dec 2018
‘Tell them about the dream’ Graduation season has started on a high note with the robing of the Vice-Chancellor, academics being honoured and Humanities graduands being urged to be courageous. 14 Dec 2018
Four doctors, two families make it a double It’s not often that two sets of brothers who are close friends graduate from the same two faculties – and each with the title of doctor. 14 Dec 2018
Faculty of Commerce graduation ceremony - 14 December at 09:00 The Faculty of Commerce graduation ceremony was held in at 09:00 on Friday, 14 December. 14 Dec 2018
Faculties of Law and Health Sciences graduation ceremony - 13 December at 18:00 The faculties of Law and Health Sciences shared the stage at a graduation ceremony held in Memorial Hall at 18:00 on Thursday, 13 December. 13 Dec 2018
Faculty of Humanities graduation ceremony - 13 December at 14:30 Students from the Faculty of Humanities were robed at a graduation ceremony yesterday afternoon, 13 December, which also saw the awarding of the UCT Book Award, the UCT Creative Works Award, and an alumnus returning to his alma mater to present the keynote address. 13 Dec 2018
Twin cities connect struggle and liberation sites Associate Professor Svea Josephy received a Creative Works Award for her solo exhibition, Satellite Cities, at today’s graduation. It is one of three such awards. 13 Dec 2018
Symphony of elements wins Creative Works Award Professor Hendrik Hofmeyr, of the South African College of Music, receives a Creative Works Award at today’s graduation for his composition Second Symphony – The Elements. 13 Dec 2018
Creative Works Award for Womb of Fire Dr Sara Matchett’s Creative Works Award winner, Womb of Fire, addresses how centuries of violence in South Africa continue to play out on women’s bodies. 13 Dec 2018
UCT Book Award for classics scholar Professor David Wardle’s work Suetonius: Life of Augustus has won him the 2018 UCT Book Award. 13 Dec 2018
UCT Vice-Chancellor’s robing ceremony at a special graduation Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng was officially robed as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town on 13 December 2018. 13 Dec 2018
Commitment, passion and dogged determination Due to graduate with a PhD in Medical Biochemistry, Kehilwe Nakedi reflects on her academic journey and the pleasure of seeing things finally fall into place. 12 Dec 2018
An extra special Golden Grad celebration Golden Grad Madi Gray, a veteran of the nine-day Bremner sit-in of 1968, will be among other UCT alumni celebrating their Golden Graduation this week. 12 Dec 2018
UCT remedies a past injustice The story of Raymond Suttner receiving his LLM from UCT almost half a century after withdrawing his thesis from examination has captured imaginations around the country. 11 Dec 2018
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