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Seeds under siege: it's time to support traditional systems
Seeds are the very essence of life. From those growing a multiplicity of grains, legumes and vegetables to others struggling to produce enough to feed their families, seeds provide the mainstay for Africa's 500 million small-scale farmers.
10 Nov 2016
UCT executive and student groupings sign agreement
09 Nov 2016
Mauritius encourages intra-African research
09 Nov 2016
Explainer: the how, what and why of the latest HIV vaccine trial
As the global quest for an HIV vaccine continues, Linda-Gail Bekker explains the significance of the latest large-scale trial underway in South Africa.
08 Nov 2016
Child soldier's PhD turns hurt into hope
At the age of nine, when most children are at school, Julius Okello was wearing a military uniform and carrying a sub-machine gun.
07 Nov 2016
Sudesh Sivarasu: Clinician-centred innovation
Dr Sudesh Sivarasu's path to becoming a prolific inventor of biomedical devices has had its twists and turns.
04 Nov 2016
Kingsley Holgate honoured at Golden Key ceremony
The Golden Key New Members Ceremony, where new and honorary members are inducted into the society, was held recently at The Mill, Church-on-Main, Wynberg.
04 Nov 2016
Researchers aim for the clouds: UCT and NWU launch first stage of big-data African Research Cloud
The rapid advance in scientific knowledge has created such vast and complex quantities of information, or big data, that scientists and researchers have had to develop new infrastructure, tools and approaches to capture, analyse and share it.
04 Nov 2016
Mission accomplished for ice cool researchers
UCT's Sea Ice Research Group took a mid-winter cruise from Cape Town to the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) of Antarctica.
03 Nov 2016
Bill Bowen - UCT loses an important friend
Dr Bill Bowen, the renowned labour economist who led a charge for breaking down exclusionary barriers at elite universities, and an important benefactor of poor students from UCT, passed away on 20 October 2016. He was 83.
02 Nov 2016
Virtual seafood market for artisanal fishers
Technology, in the form of the Abalobi suite of apps, is playing a vital role in revolutionising small-scale fishing, thanks to a project involving Dr Serge Raemaekers from the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences.
02 Nov 2016
Lewis Pugh succeeds in protecting Antarctic sea
“An issue of justice between generations and between ourselves and the animal kingdom.”
01 Nov 2016
All hands on deck
It was early in 2015 when UCT Yacht Club members Mikhayla Bader and Matt Whitehead first floated the idea of taking on the 4 000-nautical-mile challenge to compete as a team of students in the 2017 Cape 2 Rio ocean race.
01 Nov 2016
UCT alumni in premier of The Father
31 Oct 2016
Samuel Ginsberg: The power of collaboration
UCT electrical engineer and senior lecturer Samuel Ginsberg has had a hand in inventing such diverse devices as a heat detector for informal settlements.
28 Oct 2016
Tim Crowe comments on BAC statement
27 Oct 2016
Opinion
Laying funding problems at government's feet
Today, the Minister of Finance tabled the 2016 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in Parliament.
26 Oct 2016
UCT rises to 112th in Global University Ranking
26 Oct 2016
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