Ahead of International Day of Forests, the importance of protecting tree ecosystems comes into focus, including at UCT, where the urban forest is facing a new and growing threat.

Matthew Jordaan’s road to graduation was lined with a list of triumphs and defeats.

UCT PhD graduand Robyn Humphreys explores how the Prestwich Street Burial Grounds reshaped heritage archaeology, highlighting tensions between community memory and colonial practice.

UCT hosted a two-day workshop last week on Revisiting and Reimagining ‘Imvo Zabantsundu’, which was funded by the African Critical Inquiry Programme.

A collaborative study by researchers from UCT and other institutions has successfully isolated and characterised vaginal bacteria from South African women.