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 »
October 19, 2023
South Africa: A Living Wage and the Dignity Afforded By Choice
On 7 October, workers across the globe marked International Day of Decent Work, a topic the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Professor Ines Meyer put under the microscope just days… Read more »
August 17, 2023
Africa: Women's Month - UK Creates 'Hostile Environment' for African Sexual and Gender Diverse Asylum Claimants
Increasingly people are fleeing their countries of birth to seek refuge elsewhere in the world. And the reasons are plentiful - civil war, political instability, poverty due to… Read more »
July 20, 2023
South Africa: Graduand's Research Probes Prevalence, Risk of Elder Abuse in SA
Novel research that studies the well-being and the provision and coordination of care for older people in South Africa, including those living with dementia - a marginalised and… Read more »
July 18, 2023
South Africa: UCT Honours Anti-Apartheid Poet Keith Gottschalk
Protest, prison, humour and hope were recurring themes that emerged during a high tea event hosted by the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Development and Alumni Department (DAD) in… Read more »
July 17, 2023
Uganda: PhD Study On Women With Disabilities Accessing Antenatal Care in Rural Uganda
In low- and middle-income countries, pregnant women with disabilities face significant environmental barriers to receiving antenatal care. And yet, antenatal care is a critical… 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 »
April 18, 2023
South Africa: Caregiving for Older People Perpetuates Poverty and Inequality in SA
Preliminary results that emanate from the novel University of Cape Town (UCT)-led Family Care of Older Persons in Southern Africa programme reveal that caregiving for older people,… Read more »
March 28, 2023
South Africa: Disability and Islam - Phd Examines Unconscious Exclusion, Burden of Responsibility
Shaheed Moussa* attended Friday congregational prayers regularly at his local mosque - until he became a wheelchair user. But after a series of incidents left him feeling… 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 »
December 13, 2022
South Africa: Generative Disruption - Disability Symposium Caps Three-Year Research Project
Young people with disabilities continue to struggle in the transitions between secondary school, tertiary education, and the job market. "We want to disrupt things," said Professor… Read more »
December 05, 2022
South Africa: Falling Through the Cracks - How SA's Healthcare System Is Failing the LGBTQI Community
The theme for World Aids Day 2022 is "Equalise", and yet a Health and Advocacy Day for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) community showed that… Read more »
September 28, 2022
South Africa: Telemedicine Increases Access to Safe Abortion Care
Ground-breaking research into accessing safe abortion services in South Africa has revealed that telemedicine abortion is safe and effective, and a viable alternative to the… Read more »
September 23, 2022
South Africa: Heritage Day - 'I Want to Call Out Their Names One By One'
"I want to call out their names one by one, as a way in which we don't forget them," art curator Nontobeko Ntombela said of the 45 black women artists exhibited at the Norval… Read more »
August 22, 2022
South Africa: Women's Month - 'Don't Put the Girl Down' - Zimbabwean Human Rights Champion
"From the time a girl starts walking she is exposed to danger." It was this realisation and her own experience of sexual abuse that rallied Gamuchirayi Manyadzi to act. The… Read more »
April 29, 2022
South Africa: Francis Wilson (1939-2020) - Visionary Scholar With Mud On His Boots
In short bio penned for a School of Economics web page some years ago, Emeritus Professor Francis Wilson delivered a challenge to fellow researchers at the University of Cape Town… Read more »
April 28, 2022
South Africa: Son of Africa, We Salute You
Francis Wilson has left indelible deep footprints wherever he found himself as an academic, a citizen, a friend and a mentor of countless people including myself, whose lives he… Read more »