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Ethical dilemmas: Controversy surrounds UCT’s invitation to former Eskom boss”

By Lee-Yandra Paulsen The University of Cape Town, renowned for its academic excellence and commitment to ethical leadership, finds itself embroiled in controversy following an unexpected invitation extended to former Eskom executive, Matshela Koko. Koko, whose tenure at Eskom was tainted by allegations of corruption and fraud related to a substantial contract at the Kusile power station, has been invited to lecture final-year students on "ethics and professionalism." This decision […]

6 March 2024

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UCT partners with the Kwanele Foundation to launch the Kwanele App to report GBV incidents

By Kouthar Sambo As we approach 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has partnered with the Kwanele Foundation to launch the Kwanele App, which is a digital tool to help track and report Gender Based Violence (GBV) incidents across the campus. The app provides students with a platform to report incidents without fear and shame, which could potentially […]

10 November 2023

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UCT academic staff set to go on strike

About 700 members of the Academics’ Union (AU) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are set to embark on an unprecedented wage strike next week. Academic staff is unhappy over a 3% pay increase offered by management. It’s expected that the strike will negatively affect registration, the release of supplementary examination results as well as teaching at the institution. Lead Negotiator of AU, Associate Professor Kelley Moult, says they […]

22 January 2023

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Youngest President of SASMA- Dr. Sharief Hendricks

“Leading SASMA is an honour and privilege. I’m the youngest and first non-physician to be president, and what this represents is the bridging of the gap between the clinician and research in sports medicine.” This is according to Dr. Sharief Hendricks, from the University of Cape Town (UCT) who was chosen as the two-year President of the South African Athletics Medicine Association (SASMA). He is the first medical professional outside […]

19 January 2023

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UCT master’s student scoops award for Delft stormwater basin project

University of Cape Town (UCT) student Tauhir Rakiep has won the Best Student/Research Project category of the inaugural #cocreate Blue-Green Cities Design Awards for his proposal to convert a Delft stormwater basin into a bioretention pond and a valuable natural public amenity, a blue-green oasis in a densely built setting. Now a master’s student in the School of Architecture, Rakiep’s winning “Knowing Water” project was completed during his honours year. […]

11 November 2022

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UCT leaps up 23 places in international rankings

The University of Cape Town (UCT) climbed 23 places and retained its top spot on the continent in this year’s World University Rankings published by Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday, 12 October 2022. The university now sits at 160th globally, up from 183rd place in 2021. The latest ranking means that in all five major international university rankings, UCT is ranked best in Africa. This year, UCT took the […]

12 October 2022

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UCT students design portable pump to give destitute clean water

By: Aneeqa du Plessis As the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ continue to grow relentlessly across the globe, a local group of students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have done their bit to ensure destitute citizens have access to sanitation at a low cost by developing a portable pump that is able to separate muck from water which can be used for various tasks i.e. washing, […]

1 September 2022

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UCT condemns disruption of midyear exams amid protests over insourcing

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has condemned the disruption of exams and confirmed it has opened cases of trespassing and malicious damage to property after a group of people walked into an exam hall and scattered exam material onto the floor. In videos shared on social media on Monday, a group of men can be seen walking through the venue on the upper campus, scattering exam papers along the […]

7 June 2022

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Climate change doubles chance of repeat killer floods, say global experts

The floods that devastated parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape in April, killing 435 people, were definitely linked to climate change and can be expected every 20 years. The interval predicted by World Weather Attribution, a group of climate scientists, meteorologists and disaster experts, is half what they said it would be without climate change. The experts said the two-day storm that caused the floods was the latest evidence that […]

14 May 2022

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