By Ragheema Mclean Members of the Somali refugee community in the Western Cape, along with several Uber drivers, staged a protest outside the Bellville Magistrates Court yesterday. The demonstration was in response to the murder of fellow Uber driver Abdirashiid Haji Mohamed in early February in Bellville Central. Speaking on[…]
Much needed health services are being brought closer to the farming and peri-urban areas of the Western Cape, through a multi-million-rand mobile clinic launched by the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The University’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences says the state-of-the-art mobile clinic will at the same time[…]
By Aneeqa du Plessis A third-year university student was shot and killed during an attempted robbery in Belhar on Saturday evening. Kamva Dasi, 22, who was an accounting student at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), was attacked while walking to a nearby bank with a group of other[…]
The University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) Student Representative Council (SRC) is threatening mass action if its demands for an inclusive registration process are not met. SRC president Mandla-Onke Notyawa said many students were turned away because they have outstanding debt. A group of students staged a demonstration on Monday[…]
Alf Mabrook is in order! Just over a week ago, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) held their first in-person graduation since 2019. More than 4 000 students graduated throughout the week. Among those beaming graduates was Muneesah Abrahams who hails from Manenberg on the Cape Flats. After four[…]
University of the Western Cape officials said the move to shutdown campus residences was taken in line with their mandatory COVID vaccination policy. On Friday night night, students returned to their dorms to find they’d been locked out. A student, who asked to remain anonymous, said some students were left[…]
LOCAL Rhodes University has collaborated with local and foreign universities in an effort to revive and preserve indigenous African languages. The project is called “Baqonde” and is funded by the European Union. Its aim is to facilitate and promote the use of indigenous African languages as mediums of instruction at[…]
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) says students who register for the 2021 academic year will be allowed to apply for payment plans to cover their registration. Students with outstanding debt will also be allowed to register, after they sign an acknowledgment of debt form. UWC Spokesperson, Gasant Abarder,[…]
A senior researcher at the University of the Western Cape Professor Leslie Petrik believes the City of Cape Town is in denial of the state of water contamination in Cape Town for political reasons and warns that the state of pollution in and around the coast is deeply concerning. Professor[…]
Intimacy has become a serious problem in many Muslim marriages and guilt and shame-based misconceptions create problems between spouses, often leading to divorce. Conversations around these taboo issues are not commonplace and this has sparked the Wives of Paradise seminar series, expected to be launched at the end of October.[…]
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