University of Cape Town

The family of the late Professor Weli Mazamisa, who lectured theology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 1987 to 2010, has ensured that his legacy of inspiring hope and fighting for the education of every African child will live on…

Staff and students from the University of Cape Town (UCT) School of Architecture, Planning, and Geomatics have helped to rebuild a popular Langa children’s theatre after it was damaged by fire in 2020.The repair project at the Guga…

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Paediatric Fellowship Programme (APFP) symposium, held on Wednesday, 24 August, bore testament to the programme’s commendable work in paediatric critical care on the continent. Dr Shamiel Salie,…

Corporatising universities and the increased need for funding from the private sector pose a direct threat to academic freedom – and universities ignore this threat to their peril, said Professor Fran Baum.Professor Baum is the director…

A team of researchers, including the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Dr Robert Morrell, recently produced a massive open online course (MOOC) on gender, violence and post-conflict states. The project leaders were Dr Thomas Brorsen Smidt…

Big bones from the extinct ‘thunderbird’ or dromornithid indicate that while their size and breeding cycle gradually changed over millennia, they ultimately could not keep pace with the environmental changes around them. The specimens…

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) has partnered with the University of Limpopo (UL) on a project to boost drug discovery research capacity at this historically disadvantaged institution…

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…

The Kalahari is an arid region, its name derived from a Setswana word kgala or “great thirst”. But tufa rock formations on Ga-Mohana Hill in the southern Kalahari show that waterfalls, flowing streams and pools once attracted early humans…

As it intended almost three decades ago, the Khayelitsha Cervical Cancer Screening Project (KCCSP) has touched and changed the lives of thousands of women and adolescent girls living in Khayelitsha. The clinic is one of the community’s…