News Youth Month: Student’s tutoring programme helps learners excel at life sciences

Nkanyiso Dlamini’s tutoring programme supports hundreds of high school leaners across the country to wrap their heads around life sciences.

19 Jun 2026 - 9 min read
 
Photo Essay Soweto in the early 1970s

UCT News spent some time in the Special Collections library for life in Soweto in the lead-up to the Soweto Uprising.

19 Jun 2026
 
News UCT’s status as Africa’s highest-ranked university reinforced

UCT has reaffirmed its dominance in global rankings and solidified its status as the continent’s leading university.

18 Jun 2026 - 5 min read
 
Videos A decade of discovery: Celebrating 10 Years of data-intensive astronomy

The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) celebrated a decade of transforming MeerKAT telescope data into world-leading scientific discoveries, while advancing South Africa's capabilities in astronomy, data science, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

18 Jun 2026
 
News Inclusive education post-June 1976: ‘A struggle worth fighting for’

Fifty years on and the struggle for inclusive education continues in South Africa.

18 Jun 2026 - 8 min read