Africa: Global Surgery Strategies, Systems Crucial to Ensuring Timely, Safe Surgery - Especially for Women

The first rural hospital patient who died on Professor Salome Maswime's watch precipitated a crisis most young doctors in community service experience. Was it her? Did she lack… 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 »

South Africa: Pioneering Global Surgery Work Scores UCT Professor Distinguished Award

Salome Maswime, professor and the head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is celebrating a series of milestones. In a remarkable week, she received the South… Read more »

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 »

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: A Starry-Eyed Inspirational Graduate

Michael Hlabathe will graduate with his PhD in astrophysics on Friday, 21 July, from the University of Cape Town (UCT) for his investigation into active galactic nuclei. Throughout… 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 »

Africa: All Africa House Ready to Welcome Guests Again

The University of Cape Town's (UCT) hospitality division has revamped and relaunched its All Africa House accommodation offering, and the hope is that it continues to attract… 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: Redress Mental Healthcare for Children and Adolescents in South Africa

Child and adolescent mental health is the foundation of a strong, vibrant and caring society. Yet, South Africa's youth are near breaking point. Far too many children and… Read more »

South Africa: UCT Ranks 9th in the World for SDGs - Clean Water and Sanitation

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has been ranked 9th for clean water and sanitation, while also performing well in three other United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN… 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 »

South Africa: 'A Growing Swamp' - Dysfunction and Corruption Threaten SA's Universities

The politicisation of top governance in South African universities is an entrée to corruption, and if left unchecked, the "growing swamp" will destroy higher education and… Read more »

South Africa: New Evidence Shows Cradle of Humankind Site May Be Much Younger Than Thought

New evidence shows that South Africa's Cradle of Humankind site, pegged at 4 million years old, is much younger than was previously thought. This brings the narrative of its… Read more »

South Africa: UCT Opera Star Who Broke Glass Ceiling to Sing At Coronation

She has the voice of an angel, and it will grace the coronation of a king and his queen in Westminster Abbey on 6 May. University of Cape Town (UCT) alumnus Pretty Yende's story is… 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: Kwalanga Centenary - Paying Homage to Acclaimed Jazz Maestro Louis Moholo-Moholo

In 1923, exactly a century ago, the apartheid government's Native Urban Areas Act's mandate was clear: it aimed to segregate urban residential spaces and impose "influx controls"… 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: Novel Diagnostic Testing Technique - a Game-Changer in the Fight Against TB

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health priority globally, and the foremost infectious disease killer in sub-Saharan Africa. In many TB-endemic countries, it sets back… Read more »

South Africa: UCT Funding to Support Cost-Effective Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals in South Africa

The manufacturing and availability of medicines in sub-Saharan Africa will receive a major boost with the injection of R13 million to the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Holistic… Read more »

South Africa: Faculty of Science Caps More Than 500 Graduates

The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Faculty of Science capped 563 graduates at two graduation ceremonies last week. The graduation ceremony on Wednesday, 28 March, was a joyful… Read more »

South Africa: UCT Honours 'Indefatigable' Ouma Katrina

In honour and recognition of her contribution to language studies in South Africa and her lifelong commitment to preserving the N|uu language - once spoken in the country by the… 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: 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 »