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New multi-functional TB blood test validated
This new test to screen for TB, called RISK6, fills gaps in the current available TB testing compliment.
25 May 2020
UCT celebrates Africa Day
What does it mean to be an African? UCT News put the question to the UCT community.
25 May 2020
UCT-led productions win at Fleur du Cap Awards
UCT’s Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies is celebrating the receipt of six 2020 Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards.
22 May 2020
COVID-19 and the value of care work
Those working from home may find themselves catching up with paid work late at night or when their children have so-called screen time, writes UCT’s Associate Professor Ameeta Jaga.
22 May 2020
Republished
UCT alum innovates again to keep PPE ‘InSupply’
UCT alum and Coronapp co-founder, Tamir Shklaz, is at it again – this time shifting his focus and skills to the critical need for personal protective equipment.
22 May 2020
Coping through COVID-19: VARSITY newspaper carries on
UCT’s student-run newspaper, VARSITY, has adapted to changes brought on by COVID-19 in order to continue to provide a platform for conversation, creativity and collaboration.
21 May 2020
10 quotes from Ilze Olckers’s Inclusive Practice talk
In her Inclusive Practice Speaker Series discussion, human rights lawyer Ilze Olckers shared learnings and reflections from her work on transformation issues in South Africa.
21 May 2020
Lockdown poem
Associate Professor Ellen Hurst from the Humanities Education Development Unit shares her experience of COVID-19 and the nationwide lockdown.
21 May 2020
COVID-19: Can you hear me?
UCT master’s student Rebecca Njuguna has online psychotherapy sessions twice a week – and the only place she has some privacy during lockdown, is in the bathroom.
20 May 2020
WOOP app now in isiXhosa, first African translation
In Africa Month comes news that the WOOP app has been translated into isiXhosa, the first African vernacular language, thanks to a collaboration with UCT.
19 May 2020
UCT’s survivor support goes online
The Office for Inclusivity and Change at UCT is now running a weekly online Survivor Support Group.
19 May 2020
Phased return to campus planned
UCT’s chief operating officer, Dr Reno Morar, has assured staff members that their return to work on campus will be done in a controlled, principled way.
19 May 2020
Brassy QuarenTune pays homage to a departed friend
William Haubrich’s lockdown video is also a musical project dedicated to a colleague who passed away a few hours after the video was posted on Facebook.
18 May 2020
COVID-19: a ‘teachable’ moment
Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor Lis Lange says remote online learning was the only feasible alternative to salvage the academic year.
18 May 2020
Funding, return to labs critical to research
Research funding and a return to laboratories and studios were central to DVC Professor Sue Harrison’s message during the Vice-Chancellor’s online special assembly.
18 May 2020
Three student groups to return to campus in phased approach
Final-year medical students, academically vulnerable students and those needing to access campus labs to complete their studies will be the first to return to campus.
15 May 2020
‘COVID-19 will test our solidarity and commitment’
Addressing a virtual staff assembly, UCT Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng assured her audience that the university will more than just survive the COVID-19 crisis
15 May 2020
COVID-19 could cancel 28 million surgeries
More than 28 million elective surgeries could be cancelled or delayed globally this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
15 May 2020
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