Sarah Baartman’s name can be elevated to the highest point of the University of Cape Town’s campus, but if her legacy isn’t built into each classroom and interaction the honour is hollow.
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Located on the slopes of Devil’s Peak in Cape Town, the University of Cape Town is a leading, research-intensive university in South Africa and on the continent, known for its academic excellence and pioneering scholarship. The university is home to a third of South Africa’s A-rated researchers (acknowledged by the Department of Science and Technology as international leaders in their field) and a fifth of the country’s national research chairs. UCT encourages students and staff to use their expertise to speed up social change and economic development across the country and continent, while pursuing the highest standards of excellence in academic knowledge and research: developing African solutions to African challenges that are also shared by developing nations around the world.
UCT, like the city of Cape Town, has a vibrant, cosmopolitan community drawn from all corners of South Africa. It also attracts students and staff from more than 100 countries in Africa and the rest of the world. The university has strong partnerships and networks with leading African and other international institutions - helping to enrich the academic, social and cultural diversity of the campus as well as to extend the reach of UCT’s academic work.
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South African universities are failing to graduate the strongest students the schooling system has to offer.
The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised.
Water supply systems weren't designed to deal with altering weather patterns brought about by climate change. This needs to change.
Christian leaders played a very significant role in fighting apartheid. One of them, Peter Storey, tells in his autobiography what shaped his convictions.
Reading involves more than decoding letter-sound relationships and making meaning from isolated texts.
Knowing your HIV status is key to accessing life-saving treatment or evaluating the best prevention options.
HIV negative children born to women with HIV have a greater risk of dying before their first birthday.
Perhaps precisely because they are so elusive, Fast Radio Bursts have received a lot of attention in the years since their discovery.
There's increasing global recognition that violence against women and children often occur together in homes.
South Africa's fossils can step out of the shadows of being undated and undateable.
Breaking the cycle of illegal abalone poaching in South Africa is going to be tough, but not impossible.
Disinformation in Africa often takes the form of extreme speech inciting violence and spreading racist, misogynous, xenophobic messages.
In Terry Kurgan’s book family history, however tortuous, is subsumed into a greater history of the greatest atrocity.
The diversity of families is one of the important underlying themes of the South African Child Gauge 2018.
Some of the things we discard - like urine - can actually be useful resources.
Road traffic injuries are one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
Scavengers play an important but often poorly understood role in how fast bodies decompose.
Steinhoff was the darling of investors, asset managers, analysts and financial journalists. But its success was built on shaky foundations.
The main reason land reform in South Africa has been lethargic is not the Constitution, but a flawed approach.
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South African Research Chair in Physical Cosmology, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership, GSB, UCT; Executive Head,Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change, University of Cape Town
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Research Fellow at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in Language Education, member bua-lit collective, University of Cape Town
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PhD Student, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, Course Convenor and PostDoctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Director, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
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Senior Researcher in Hydro-Climatology, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Director, University of Cape Town
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Professor, University of Cape Town
