University of Cape Town

In the spring of 1962, on 24 September, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Brand van Zyl Law Library opened its doors with a clear course of action: to serve students and academics in UCT’s Faculty of Law by providing them with the…

At the centre of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) cultural heritage is a disparate 1 400-piece art collection by over 700 artists, accumulated over decades. Some works have been donated, some acquired, and others bequeathed. But there…

You need a lift to town: you request an Uber or cross-check Bolt’s fares; it’s lunchtime and you’re craving your favourite burger: you order on Mr D; you need to quickly have your house cleaned before visitors arrive at home tomorrow: you…

Sara Baartman, an opera written by Professor Hendrik Hofmeyr, premièred at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Baxter Theatre Centre on 7 September. Bringing the elusive reality and contested history of Sarah Baartman to the stage…

On 4 September 2022, The Global Short Academic Programmes unit (GSAP) at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) International Academics Programme Office (IAPO) welcomed 30 students and two faculty staff from the Asian Society of Film and…

To commemorate their 50th anniversary, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Irma Stern Museum partnered with the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) to invite Grade 11 learners doing Visual Art and Design to participate in a…

University of Cape Town (UCT) student entrepreneurs have breezed through the regional round of the Entrepreneurship Intervarsity competition – topping three of the four competition categories and leaping straight into the national…

An anchor programme of a R17 billion commitment by Eric and Wendy Schmidt to find and support global talent recently hosted its inaugural cohort of 100 global winners for the organisation’s annual residential summit.Aptly named RISE, the…

Following 17 years of successfully providing innovative entrepreneurial training to post-matric learners in Cape Town, the Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development (RAA) – a partnership between the Raymond Ackerman…

University of Cape Town’s (UCT) engineering scientists are taking the lead in a transdisciplinary research endeavour to unpack the annual cycle of sea ice advance and retreat in the Antarctica marginal ice zone from an engineering…