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Armed attack on students leads UCT to suspend services in Khayelitsha
17 Aug 2016
Yes you can, is inspiring history teacher's challenge
Salwa Southgate of Trafalgar High School in old District Six knows there's little she can do to change her pupils' difficult circumstances, but she hopes to be able to change their minds.
17 Aug 2016
Mpofu tackles SA's science education crisis
Earlier this year Bathabile Mpofu beat 24 000 entrants from all over South Africa to walk away with R600 000 prize money and top honours in the 2016 Total Startupper of the Year competition.
16 Aug 2016
Unpaid women of Marikana prop up the mines
When police were firing at mineworkers at Wonderkop in Marikana on 16 August 2012, UCT lecturer Asanda Benya was underground, working as a winch operator at a mine a few kilometres away.
16 Aug 2016
Lewis leads the way among raft of awards
Professor Alison Lewis was one of four UCT winners at the annual Department of Science and Technology's Women in Science Awards (WISA) held in Johannesburg on 11 August.
15 Aug 2016
Xolisile Thusini: a smashing science success
Xolisile Thusini is a particle physicist whose research focuses on the discovery of the Higgs boson and its properties.
15 Aug 2016
Finding peace amidst the punches
For all its furious fists and roundhouse kicks, karate is an intensely spiritual endeavour – in fact, it's almost religious, says Rifqah van Schalkwyk, chair of UCT Karate.
15 Aug 2016
UCT's latest free MOOC to catalyse social change
15 Aug 2016
Makhi Vincent Rala: a man of hidden talents
Makhi Vincent Rala instantly recalls his first day at UCT. It was 5 March 2002.
12 Aug 2016
The answer, my friend, is rowing in the wind
Jonty Smith was left high and dry in Rio on Wednesday as Olympics organisers postponed the rowing regatta due to unhelpful weather.
11 Aug 2016
Students by day, entrepreneurs by night
11 Aug 2016
Did a rotating 'broom' or gas ejection cause the Milky Way's giant void?
Astronomers speculate that a rotating, bar-shaped structure that swept through the central regions of our galaxy long ago may be the reason that no young stars have been born there for hundreds of millions of years.
10 Aug 2016
Then and now: Citizen scientists document landscape changes
Landscapes across southern Africa are changing at an alarming rate because of changes in land use and climate.
10 Aug 2016
Mistaken identity: Scholar sheds new light on museum
The Turkish scholar's research reveals that the 'real story' of the Bo-Kaap Museum at 71 Wale Street involves a case of mistaken identity.
05 Aug 2016
Nwadeyi believes in the future of Africa
05 Aug 2016
PhD candidate seeks to reduce child labour and promote education
Rebecca Nana Yaa Ayifah was first inspired to research poverty and income equality in Ghana while working as a field research assistant for The Hunger Project.
05 Aug 2016
Support the artists of tomorrow
Over the years, UCT's Faculty of Humanities has produced well-known opera stars, artists, dancers, and film and theatre industry professionals of both national and international standing.
04 Aug 2016
Opinion: Elisa Galgut
04 Aug 2016
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