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UCT’s Women’s Day lunch celebrates trans women and women in research
18 August 2022 | Director Roxanne Harris & Ruairi Abrahams. Videography Ruairi Abrahams & Boikhutso Ntsoko. Video Edit Boikhutso Ntsoko. Photo Lerato Maduna.The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Vice-Chancellor, Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng hosted a Women’s Day lunch at Graça Machel Hall on 10 August 2022, with the theme: “Yes, trans women are women”.
#ForWomxnByWomxn research grantees – Professor Janet Hapgood, Dr Katye Altieri and Dr Robyn Pickering – gave updates on their exciting research projects.
The keynote address was presented by Liberty Matthyse, a self-identified trans woman and executive director of Gender DynamiX, the first registered, Africa-based public benefit organisation that focuses solely on trans and gender-diverse communities and movements in the Southern African region.
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The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) vice-chancellor, Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng, congratulates the class of 2022. She thanks those who have received and accepted an offer to study at UCT for making Africa’s top university their higher education destination of choice. UCT looks forward to welcoming prospective first-years, and to walking besides them every step of the way on this new journey.
20 Jan 2023
