Hlumelo Marepula’s winning research converts urea, commonly found in urine, into fertiliser – good news for sustainability and realising the African Union’s Agenda 2063.

UCT’s African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research and the Embassy of France in South Africa hosted a dialogue on historical inequalities and economic transformation.

Alone and cut off from his home in Namibia, EBE graduate Shade Muluti grappled with the effects of COVID-19 on his studies and family circle.

UCT’s Children’s Institute asked Parliament to increase the Child Support Grant by at least R10.

The first matriculant from his Limpopo school to attend UCT, Marvel Makhubele graduatied with a PhD in Geoscience on 14 December 2021.

After scoring 8% for his first maths test, UCT graduate Wesley Chen almost gave up on ever attaining his chemical engineering degree.

As the fulfilment of a promise, this mother-and-daughter duo celebrated their graduation together.

After a tough year (and many prior struggles), student leader Lance-Selae August graduated with first class honours.

A first‑class bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematical statistics was the latest of many academic successes for then-19‑year‑old Kialan Pillay.

The recipients of the 2021 Mamokgethi Phakeng Scholarship and Prize gathered on the lawns of Glenara to give thanks and celebrate their achievement.

A team of academics at UCT and Groote Schuur Hospital performed South Africa’s first bowel enteroscopy using the novel PowerSpiral device.

UCT master’s student Brendon Maongera developed a simulated satellite and testbench that can help South Africa reach its vegetation monitoring goals.

During a Zimbabwe Society event, UCT alumnus and MTN Group president and CEO Ralph Mupita shared lessons for student and work life.

Marine tracking skills and the value of a scientific lens played key roles in creating My Octopus Teacher, which landed South Africa’s first documentary Oscar.

Several UCT buildings were gutted by an inferno which started on the slopes of Devil’s Peak in April 2021.

Associate Professor Amir Patel and Dr Mohohlo Tsoeu are UCT’s first-ever recipients of Google’s Research Scholar Program.

UCT researchers are among those who studied and described a new archaeological site, Ga-Mohana Hill, and found evidence for complex symbolic behaviours 105 000 years ago.

UCT alumnus and businesswoman Magda Wierzycka, one of Africa’s 50 most powerful women, kicked off UCT InvestSoc’s packed annual programme of events.

Celebrated sisters and UCT alumni Zubeida and Zuleiga Jaffer reflected on the changes they’d seen at the university over the years.

UCT developed a comprehensive programme to introduce new first-year students to residence life and ensure they thrive in a safe, enabling and healthy environment.

Professor Stephen Roche and a team from Groote Schuur Hospital performed a shoulder replacement surgery using mixed reality techniques as part of a global 24-hour event.

UCT maintained its ranking as the 39th most international university in the world by Times Higher Education.

As part of UCT’s first virtual Summer School, Dr Lwazi Lushaba delivered a thought-provoking lecture on the decolonisation of the social sciences.