February 08
South Africa: SA Magistrates' Courts Survey Reveals 'Reassuring' Outcome
Thirty years into a democratic dispensation, South Africa's Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has managed to iron out one of the biggest challenges users of the… Read more »
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 »
August 22, 2023
South Africa: LLB to Phd - Thapelo Teele's Inspirational Journey
Just a year after registering for his LLM at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Dr Thapelo Teele's dissertation was upgraded to a PhD. In the two short years since, Dr Teele has… 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 »
June 01, 2023
South Africa: UCT to House South Africa's First Youth Violence-Prevention Centre
University of Cape Town (UCT) student and community activist Zukile Ntentema has set the wheels in motion to establish the first youth violence-prevention centre on home soil. This… 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 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 »
April 11, 2022
South Africa: Faculty of Law
Due to the ongoing global pandemic, each faculty at the University of Cape Town (UCT) held a graduation 'walk of celebration' for the March 2022 graduands outside of the Sarah… Read more »
March 21, 2022
South Africa: Human Rights Day - Protecting the Rights of Refugees
The Refugee Rights Unit (RRU) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is a safe space for refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa - a place where their struggles don't go… Read more »