December 01, 2023
South Africa: Include People Living With Intellectual Disabilities in SA's Policy Development
South Africans living with intellectual disabilities must be included in multi-layer policy development and implementation processes that directly impact their lives and mental… Read more »
November 16, 2023
South Africa: SRD Grant - What Is It You Are Trying to Solve?
The sustainability of government's COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD Grant) came into sharp focus when the University of Cape Town's (UCT) director of the Development… Read more »
November 06, 2023
South Africa: National Treasury Not Protecting, Prioritising the Development of Children - Institute
The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on 1 November, is short-sighted in that it fails to protect and prioritise the… Read more »
July 12, 2023
South Africa: Measure Impoverishment, Not Poverty - Prof Sir Angus Deaton
Decades of economic measurements introduced to determine destitution levels have shown how difficult it is to identify reliable markers of poverty across societies and regions. Is… Read more »
March 27, 2023
South Africa: UCT's Sustainability Response in an Era of Droughts, Rolling Blackouts
As multiple crises converge on the environment and people, rapid responses have been the order of the day - and the University of Cape Town (UCT) has not been spared. Read more »
March 20, 2023
South Africa: Human Rights Day - 'Refugees Are People With Rights and Aspirations'
"As a foreigner living in South Africa, your refugee status underpins the treatment you receive. We need to work twice as hard as South African citizens to achieve the same result,… Read more »
August 10, 2022
South Africa: Women's Month - Change SA's Language Learning Policy to Decolonise Education Curricula
African-language-speaking students at South African universities must enjoy the same learning privileges afforded to English- and Afrikaans-speaking students. Changing South… Read more »
May 23, 2022
Africa: Harnessing Healthcare to Build the 'Africa We Want'
On 16 May, ahead of Africa Day 2022, the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) hosted a celebration with the theme "The Future of Healthcare in Africa".… Read more »