While none of our universities make the world’s top 100, at least we have one in the top 200. Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town are the only two in the country to move up in their global ranking.
A lot of people were wondering what Chumani Maxwele would do once the statue came down, well here’s the answer.
With the removal of the Rhodes statue and the continued efforts by students at UCT to forcefully push for transformation, opinions are divided as to where all of this will lead and more importantly, what we will be left with as a result of the process of change.
Here’s how the removal of the Cecil John Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town made international headlines.
Learn about The University of Cape Town Trust and its fundraising efforts to cause change in education
A tiny new shrimp, called the “stargazer mysid” by divers because of its eyes’ apparent permanent upward gaze, has been found in the extensively sampled waters of False Bay, Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
The 2014 African Investing for Impact Barometer was released on 9 September in Cape Town. Its message: investing for impact is on the rise in both South Africa and Nigeria. The financial industry is already abuzz with talk about the trend, and the Barometer is here to clarify what the talk really means.
The LSE is hosting a public exhibition titled “South Africa’s Democracy – Mandela’s Cherished Ideal” running for the month of September. The exhibition, displaying the highs and lows of South Africa’s journey into democracy, was put together by the Universities of Cape Town, Wits and Fort Hare
South Africa’s Democracy: Mandela’s “Cherished Ideal” Exhibition in London of previously unseen photographs, artefacts and documents from three South African Universities Treasures from the archives of the Universities of Cape Town, Fort Hare and Witwatersrand will be shown at the London School of Economics from 1st to 26th September 2014. This exhibition of material not […]
The trial results of a three-drug combination called PaMZ, unveiled at the International Aids Conference in Melbourne last month, offer hope of the first new medication in half a century for the widespread treatment of tuberculosis – and one which also has the potential to cure multi-drug-resistant TB.
Nicky Schrire performed in the Songsuite Vocal Festival 2014 at the Pheasantry on 28Â June. Nicky holds her own as a contemporary jazz singer, veering between a Norah Jones and Esperanza Spalding sound, yet bringing us a South African flavour as someone passionate about the music of other cultures.
Professor Mark Solms both delighted and challenged University of Cape Town alumni in London with the story of his ambitious and successful approach to land reform in South Africa as practised on his own wine farm, a model of black empowerment where all who work the farm own shares.
UK based alumni are invited to gather at Kings College London on 2 April for a talk by Professor Mark Solms entiteled “Turning Psychoanalysis into Wine”.