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Details around agreement with PASS unions
Further to the communication issued on 2 March 2026 announcing the agreement reached between the University of Cape Town (UCT) executive and the three unions representing the Professional, Administrative and Support Service (PASS) staff within the bargaining unit pay classes 2–12, details of the agreement can now be made available.
10 Mar 2026
Welcoming UCT postgraduates and supervisors
I begin my tenure as the new deputy vice-chancellor managing a complex portfolio just as you too begin – or continue – your postgraduate journey with us. I want to acknowledge your ambition, curiosity and resilience which have enabled you to get this far.
10 Mar 2026
UCT lecture champions the unseen labour of care
Responding to the question of who bears responsibility for caring for the young, the old, the ill and the vulnerable – and why, Professor Elena Moore of the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) delivered her inaugural lecture on Wednesday, 4 March 2026, titled: “Who Cares? The Directions of State–Family Relationships in Changing Times”.
10 Mar 2026
Media release
UCT palaeontologists challenge method used to estimate age of crocodiles and dinosaurs
Do the bones of Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted to accurately gauge the age of these reptiles? Is this also an accurate method to use when trying to “age” dinosaurs and other extinct and extant reptiles? No, not according to a Scientific Reports study by Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan and Dr Maria-Eugenia Pereyra of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
10 Mar 2026
Media release
UCT hosts IARU Presidents’ Meeting
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) spring graduation was marked by historic milestones, including the awarding of honorary doctorates to four distinguished individuals and the official renaming of Jameson Hall to Sarah Baartman Hall, among other notable highlights.
09 Mar 2026
Who Cares? The Directions of State–Family Relationships in Changing Times
Professor Elena Moore of the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town delivered her inaugural lecture on 4 March, titled: “Who Cares? The Directions of State–Family Relationships in Changing Times”. The lecture drew together more than two decades of research into how families and societies organise, experience, and govern care.
09 Mar 2026
VC’s Open Lecture by Oxford VC and other updates
Following engagements between the University of Cape Town (UCT) executive and the three unions representing the Professional, Administrative and Support Service (PASS) staff within the bargaining unit (pay classes 1–12), an agreement has been reached by both parties.
05 Mar 2026
UCT-led study finds increase in plastic bottle pollution on Marion Island
A long-term study led by researchers from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology found that when litter was first surveyed on Marion Island in 1984, more than half of all items came from the island’s research station. Since then, the amount of beached litter has increased substantially, but litter from the research station has decreased due to improvements in solid waste management, with local land-based litter currently accounting for less than 1% of all litter.
05 Mar 2026
Media release
How care is organised, experienced and governed amid social and economic change – UCT lecture
University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Elena Moore, professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities , will deliver her inaugural lecture, “Who cares? The directions of state-family relationships in changing times”, on Wednesday, 4 March 2026 at 17:30 SAST at the New Lecture Theatre on upper campus.
03 Mar 2026
Media release
