University of the Western Cape

As the official Academy of South Africa, ASSAf has a core function to honour the country’s most outstanding scholars by electing them to Membership of the Academy. ASSAf Members are drawn from the full spectrum of disciplines.Prof…

Prof Pretorius spoke about reading the book, The Number, in which Magadien Wentzel, a prison gang leader, details his story of growing up on the Cape Flats and ending up in prison. Many of the places described in the book were familiar to…

But as they say, stars vary in brightness, and the sportspeople who shone the brightest in 2022 were honoured at the glamorous annual UWC Sports Awards ceremony this week.Banyana Banyana AWCON winning star Amogelang Motau was deservedly…

Just because pathogen genomic sequencing has become the global norm for unpacking the genetic material of a pathogen, doesn’t mean everyone gets to do it.In many ways, there is a sequencing divide between countries and regions. In Africa,…

In the 2002 movie Minority Report (based on a short story by Philip K Dick), director Steven Spielberg imagined a future in which three psychics can “see” murders before they happen. Their clairvoyance allows Tom Cruise and his “Precrime”…

650 million women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday. That’s one of the startling figures contained in a 2021 UNICEF report about child marriage. Africa’s sub-Saharan region is home to nine of the ten countries…

In June this year, 86 interns joined the university, working in various departments, including the International Relations Office, Human Resources and Institutional Advancement.UWC's HR staff meet Colin Hill, thePYEI seminar…

Seven human coronaviruses have been identified since then.Most cause only relatively minor health concerns: the common cold and seasonal respiratory infections that come around every year. But the 2003 outbreak in China and other parts of…

Impossible Bosses: Secret Strategies to Deal with 8 Archetypal Managers – the well-received book on how to take back control of your career – is going digital. The book was penned by the University of the Western Cape’s Deputy-Vice…

South Africa Sweden University Forum - better known as SASUF 2030 - is a transformative project uniting 39 universities from Sweden and South Africa. The SASUF Goes Digital workshop took place from 19 to 23 September 2022. The themes for…