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UCT study highlights aviation legislation gaps that could impact flight safety
A University of Cape Town (UCT) study in Private Law has shed light on the impact of automation on air traffic controllers. By showing the gaps in legislation, procedures and technology, the study highlights risks that could impact air traffic controllers and flight safety.
18 Sep 2025
Media release
Digital divide contributes to lack of service delivery to poor communities – UCT study
The spread of digital technology, or information and communication technology (ICT), has changed how services are delivered, but not always in ways that benefit everyone equally. At present, the system often tilts in favour of service providers and wealthier groups, leaving poorer or rural communities at a disadvantage.
18 Sep 2025
Media release
UCT spin-off company selected into the prestigious Breakthrough Energy Fellows
A University of Cape Town (UCT) spin-off company, C STAR, has been chosen to participate in the prestigious Breakthrough Energy’s Fellows Program (BE Fellows) to advance the production of synthetic fuels from carbon dioxide to solve the global need for sustainable transportation fuels.
18 Sep 2025
Media release
Illicit cigarettes starve South Africa’s fiscus of billions, UCT academics argue
South Africa was once hailed as a leader in tobacco control. From 1994 to 2009, sharp increases in excise taxes, combined with measures such as advertising bans and smoke-free legislation reduced smoking rates, improved public health and delivered strong revenue growth.
16 Sep 2025
Media release
UCT Jazz Festival returns with bold line-up
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) South African College of Music (SACM) is set to bring the city alive with sounds of jazz as it announces the return of its much-anticipated annual UCT Jazz Festival. Running from 23 to 25 September 2025 – with a special lunchtime concert on 22 September – the four-day celebration will showcase the remarkable talent and creativity nurtured at UCT.
16 Sep 2025
Media release
Unravelling cash-in-transit networks: Study reveals intricate underworld web
It’s easy to mistake the chaos of a cash-in-transit (CIT) heist for disorder. The screech of tyres, the gunfire, the explosions – it all suggests recklessness. However, if you ask University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD graduate Annie Kok, behind the smoke and twisted metal is something far more calculated: a disciplined, adaptive network that operates with utmost prudence and the resilience of a living organism.
15 Sep 2025
Media release
Political interference collapsing state-owned companies, UCT research warns
With economists warning that South Africa is on the brink of an economic crisis, research warns that state-owned companies (SOCs) are “on a direct path to collapse” unless urgent reforms end political interference, hold shareholder representatives to account, and force entities to operate without endless government bailouts. The warning comes from Minah Tong-Mongalo , who received her PhD in Commercial Law on 9 September 2025 from the University of Cape Town (UCT) for a thesis examining the original powers of state-owned companies’ boards in South Africa.
15 Sep 2025
Media release
SA Constitution denies children explicit right to express themselves – UCT study
While South African law strongly advocates protecting children, a new study by the University of Cape Town (UCT) found that the Constitution does not explicitly give children the right to be heard in matters that affect them.
11 Sep 2025
Media release
UCT lecture challenges Africa to make dignity central to universal health access
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences ’ Pan-African Health Sciences Forum (PAHS) hosted its annual Global Health Lecture on 1 September 2025 under the theme: “Universal Health Access for Africa: Where are we now?”
11 Sep 2025
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UCT academy graduates women living with multiple chronic conditions as health advocates
It was a graduation ceremony with a difference. Bertha House Hall in Observatory was filled with celebration and emotion as 13 women living with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) donned graduation sashes for the first time.
11 Sep 2025
Media release
UCT lecture explores the evolution of evaluation practice
What does it mean to measure what truly matters? At the University of Cape Town (UCT), Professor Sarah Chapman used her inaugural lecture to challenge conventional notions of evidence and evaluation, urging a rethink of how knowledge is generated, interpreted and applied for social transformation.
10 Sep 2025
Media release
UCT study finds lack of trust in combating learners’ substance abuse
Collaboration in managing learner substance use and abuse remains challenging, especially regarding parental involvement, according to a University of Cape Town (UCT) study, which sought to understand how the growing concern about learner substance use and abuse occurring in schools was being managed.
10 Sep 2025
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Schools’ sexual education needs support from other sectors – UCT study
Though sports-based sexual and reproductive health education programmes delivered in schools attract significant investment and are widely implemented, their economic value is not well understood. A University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD study in Public Health has found that their success depends on support from other sectors.
10 Sep 2025
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UCT study gives a voice to Black migrant women workers
Black migrant women working in South Africa – though highly skilled and contributing a lot to the economy – often face discrimination, xenophobia and exclusion at work and in society, a University of Cape Town (UCT) study has found.
09 Sep 2025
Media release
UCT study finds that malnutrition and pneumonia are major contributors to infant mortality
A University of Cape Town (UCT) study has found that malnutrition and pneumonia are major contributors to under-five mortality, with evidence suggesting the gut microbiome plays an important role in developing these conditions.
09 Sep 2025
Media release
Almost 2 500 students to be honoured at UCT’s Spring 2025 graduation
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is celebrating the achievements of about 2 440 graduands across all faculties at the Spring 2025 graduation, which commenced on Monday, 8 September and will continue until Wednesday, 10 September 2025.
09 Sep 2025
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