Reflecting on a legacy: UCT’s special colloquium on Sarah Baartman

World Data System (WDS) membership reinforces UCT's leadership in responsible data stewardship, in a strategic step towards global research excellence.

UCT’s Prof Kelly Chibale pulled all the strings to promote drug discovery in Africa when he addressed the 66th London International Youth Science Forum and the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

UCT hosted the RRIP Futures and Partnerships Symposium on 10 and 11 September – a culmination of three years of collaborative research under the project Reorienting Research, Innovation & Practice to Address Future Water Challenges in Africa.

UCT PhD graduate Annie Kok said behind the smoke and twisted metal is something calculated: a disciplined, adaptive network that operates with utmost prudence and the resilience of a living organism.

Principal of UCT’s Educare, Natascha Hector, was recently named as a finalist for the 2025 HERS-SA Women in Science and Scholarship award.

UCT student Candice Eslick has won the Cape Town regional leg of the prestigious Falling Walls Lab competition.

Every year, Grade 11 visual art and design learners in the province are invited to step into Irma Stern’s world by visiting the museum and engage with her work.

UCT celebrated women living with multiple long-term conditions who completed a three-year Advocacy Skills Programme.

On 28 August, UCT hosted the first of three public dialogues, marking a decade since the eruption of the Rhodes Must Fall movement at UCT.