South Africa: UCT's Water Hub Wins the Gold Eco-Logic Award

The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Water Hub recently won the 2023 Gold Eco-Logic Award. The Eco-Logic Awards identify individuals, organisations, and communities that positively… Read more »

South Africa: ACDI Researcher Wins Axa Xl Climate Water Nexus Award

Dr Petra Holden, a University of Cape Town (UCT) researcher based at the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), has been awarded the prestigious AXA XL Climate Water… Read more »

South Africa: Screen and Treat Essential to Beat Cervical Cancer

In 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) publicised a global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem. To achieve this goal, the… Read more »

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 »

South Africa: UCT Welcomes Brazilian Vice-Chancellors to Engage On Collaborative Opportunities

South-South collaborative opportunities took centre stage during a recent visit by 25 vice-chancellors from the Brazilian Association of Rectors of State and Municipal Universities… Read more »

South Africa: Western Cape Universities Integrate for Student Success

On Thursday, 24 August, the University of Cape Town (UCT) facilitated a workshop themed "Integration for Student Success" at the Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking Afrika*… Read more »

Africa: Women's Month - Shirley Kandabu, African Adventurer, Leader, Social Entrepreneur

It was just a bicycle, something many children grow up with. But for Ugandan Shirley Kandabu, those wheels represented empowerment in a country where in some cultures it was… Read more »

South Africa: Women's Month - Belhar Child Activist, Academic At the Helm of Children's Institute

Too many children in South African do not reach their fifth birthday, and when they do survive, they bear the burden of infectious diseases, inadequate nutrition, violence and… Read more »

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 »

South Africa: Study Uncovers Why Detecting Depression, Anxiety and Domestic Violence in Pregnant Women Is Limited

Lack of confidentiality and feelings of shame related to experiences of domestic violence as well as service providers' discomfort in dealing with mental health issues were some of… Read more »

South Africa: Macassar's Community 'Storytelling Project' Wins 2022 Social Responsiveness Award

"An ordinary shack for extraordinary uses" is how Clint Abrahams describes Bong's Inn, a cultural landmark in Macassar and the pinnacle of a pioneering, seven-year community-led… Read more »

South Africa: Gina Ziervogel Takes the Helm At the African Climate Development Initiative

"An outstanding scholar on climate change, passionate about engaged research that makes a difference, a super-inclusive leader ... the African Climate and Development Initiative… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

South Africa: Youth-Focused UCT Assist Tool Launched for Early Substance Abuse Detection

In an effort to build safer student communities, the web app Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) has been piloted in a bid to spot early risk factors… Read more »

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 »

Africa: Frontiers Planet Prize for Work on Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change #AfricaClimateHope

The director of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), Mark New, along with researchers Petra Holden, Piotr Wolski, Romaric C… Read more »

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 »

South Africa: UCT Alumni Social Enterprise Aims to Disrupt Arts Education Landscape in SA

AK Arts & Leadership Academy (AKALA) is on a mission to disrupt the arts education landscape in the country by expanding access to arts education and combating arts teacher… Read more »

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 »

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 »

South Africa: UCT's HIV and TB Hotline - Serving Healthcare Workers, Communities for 15 Years

The University of Cape Town's (UCT) National HIV and TB Healthcare Worker hotline has served healthcare workers across the length and breadth of South Africa. Established as a… Read more »

South Africa: Innovative Gynaecological Device Tackles Women's Health On the Ground

Sexual and reproductive ill-health accounts for one third of the global disease burden among women and adolescent girls of reproductive age. Despite many advances in access to… Read more »

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 »