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Executive Update: Message from the VC 30 Sep 2016
Silent protesters' message: Keep the doors of learning open Many held placards on the Jammie Steps and plaza at noon today calling for engagement and dialogue to resolve the impasse between the university and student protesters. 30 Sep 2016
Celebrating legends and new talent 30 Sep 2016
Professor Anwar Mall urges the UCT community to reopen the university 30 Sep 2016
Rainbow Week: My pronoun is... Cloudy weather didn't take the shine off Rainbow Week as 2016's edition wound down to the rhythm of a thumping bassline on 29 September. 30 Sep 2016
Lutete Khonde: Synthesizing a super antioxidant Growing up in the DRC, Lutete Khonde had no idea that a decade later he would find himself in Cape Town, dedicating his PhD research to finding new ways of making ergothioneine. 30 Sep 2016
Implications of closure for UCT 29 Sep 2016
UCT Chair of Council calls for reopening of academic programme on 3 October 2016 29 Sep 2016
Executive Update: Message from the VC 29 Sep 2016
Chance encounters: How Karen Sliwa is putting African cardiology on the map Professor Karen Sliwa's career has been characterised by chance and a lack of convention, and she has now broken convention again: the first female and the first person from Africa to be elected as president of the World Heart Federation. 29 Sep 2016
'We will have a potential lost generation' UCT needs to reopen on Monday, 3 October. Failing to do so will have disastrous consequences for UCT and the higher education sector as a whole, said Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price at a press conference on 28 September 2016. 28 Sep 2016
Underfunding, not protests, is driving South African universities down global rankings The most widely respected world university rankings have all recently published their latest results. 28 Sep 2016
UCT's new head of medicine Dr Ntobeko Ntusi currently works from Groote Schuur's Cardiac Clinic where he is aiming to broaden the understanding of cardiomyopathies and inflammatory heart disease in Africans. 27 Sep 2016
VC calls for engagement on campus 26 Sep 2016
Incident at Hiddingh campus 26 Sep 2016
Statement regarding phoney email about student housing 26 Sep 2016
Mystery tooth linked to Paul Gauguin When a University of Colorado – Boulder professor contacted Dr Petrus le Roux to analyse a tooth thought to have belonged to French artist Paul Gauguin, the UCT geochemist thought he was being jibed. 23 Sep 2016
Kevin Naidoo: Computing, carbohydrates and cancer What exactly is scientific computing and how is Professor Kevin Naidoo using it to better understand how disease works? 23 Sep 2016
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