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BusinessTech
April 14, 2018
South Africa's universities make headlines for various reasons – be it student protests or ranking among the world's best for a host of different subjects – but many people do not even have an inkling to where these institutes are situated, or how they look. South Africa is home to 26 universities, split intoÃâà...
Eyewitness News
April 9, 2018
JOHANNESBURG - The University of Cape Town (UCT) will mark the 25th anniversary of the late Chris Hani's death by renaming one of its lecture theatres after the anti-apartheid struggle hero. Hani was assassinated in his Dawn Parl home driveway on 10 April 1993, just over a year before the dawn ofÃâà...
Business Day
April 4, 2018
Social cohesion: Students mingle on the campus at the University of Cape Town. The government has appointed a committee to accelerate transformation at South African universities. Picture: SUPPLIED. A forensic investigation into allegations of fraud and corruption in the allocation of National StudentÃâà...
Times LIVE
April 4, 2018
Nomzamo Mbatha received her accountancy degree and attended the graduation ceremony at the University of Cape Town on Tuesday. And wow! The whole of Mzansi was just in their feels. Speaking to Metro FM, Nomzamo explained what pushed her to continue with her studies, even though she wasÃâà...
Daily Maverick
April 4, 2018
The corresponding author of the study is Richard Matzopoulos of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, who is also a specialist scientist at the Burden of Disease Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council. The studyÃâà...
HuffPost South Africa
April 4, 2018
Golding finished her schooling at Collegiate Girls High School in Port Elizabeth and completed her BA degree, majoring in English and psychology, at the University of Cape Town. Her first job was at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, as assistant to the student adviser, followed by a position as salesÃâà...
The Courier
April 4, 2018
“It has not really been recognized as a possible threat in Africa,” said Beckie Garbett, a researcher with the Raptors Botswana group and a PhD student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Botswana banned hunting on state land in 2014, though it continues on private farms. Neighboring SouthÃâà...
Times LIVE
April 4, 2018
The University of Cape Town has honoured Brian O'Connell‚ former rector and vice-chancellor of its counterpart across the city‚ the University of Western Cape. “Today our institutions are deeply linked‚” O'Connell told graduates on Wednesday as he accepted the honorary degree of doctor of education.
Business Day
April 3, 2018
In partnership with SATVI‚ which is based at the University of Cape Town‚ the research was conducted by the Infectious Disease Research Institute and Aeras‚ a non-profit biotech organisation that is looking for a TB vaccine. The primary author of the paper Adam Penn-Nicholson said: "We found that theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 1, 2018
High-income Cape Town families have cut their average water use by 80%, according to Martine Visser, director of the Environmental Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, while low-income families cut back by 40%. After city residents were restricted to just over 13 gallons per person a day,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 1, 2018
High-income Cape Town families have cut their average water use by 80%, according to Martine Visser, director of the Environmental Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, while low-income families cut back by 40%. After city residents were restricted to just over 13 gallons per person a day,Ãâà...
IT News Africa
March 29, 2018
According to the recent Finnovating for Africa report released by media and research company Disrupt Africa, Africa is already home to more than 300 Fintech startups, having raised almost $100 million over the last 2.5 years. But the industry is crying out for skilled professionals who understand theÃâà...
Cape Business News
March 28, 2018
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has unveiled a new fintech short course at the UCT GSB (Graduate School of Business) at a time when new technologies are disrupting the finance sector, creating new careers. According to research company Disrupt Africa, the continent is already home to more thanÃâà...
Independent Online
March 28, 2018
Last year the EBE fund assisted 76 UCT engineering students with their individual needs. Picture: Tracey Adams/ANA. Cape Town - When Nkululeko Dlamini was found sleeping in an engineering lab – thin, hungry and penniless with his meagre belongings crammed into a small backpack – no one couldÃâà...
BusinessTech
March 27, 2018
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has unveiled a new fintech short course at the UCT GSB (Graduate School of Business) at a time when new technologies are disrupting the finance sector, creating new careers. According to research company Disrupt Africa, the continent is already home to more thanÃâà...
The Nation
March 24, 2018
The city council is even working with behavioural scientists and the University of Cape Town to determine the best way to “nudge” businesses and residents to slash consumption. Cape Town's success in cutting domestic consumption – by 60 per cent in three years – was highlighted on World Water Day onÃâà...
Newsweek
March 23, 2018
While World Water Day offers an opportunity to spotlight the globe's water issues, residents in Cape Town, South Africa deal with the reality of dry taps every day. Water issues are creating an uncertain future for the city, the first metropolis to deal with such a issue. Capetonians are playing down the idea ofÃâà...
News24
March 21, 2018
The appointment of Mamokgethi Phakeng as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town(UCT) represents the embracing of transformation of a higher education institution and gender equity that needs to be entrenched to bring more women in leadership in the public and private sector, the SouthÃâà...
News24
March 21, 2018
This adds to the PhD he earned from the University of Cape Town for his study on spirituality in the mining sector. Rector and vice-chancellor Wim de Villiers paid tribute to Makgoba for taking a "clear moral and ethical stance" on modern-day complexities, and for convening chaplains and student leaders inÃâà...
Eyewitness News
March 18, 2018
CAPE TOWN – Newly appointed University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgheti Phakeng, says the institution will be transformed, while building on its excellence. Phakeng will take over the reins from outgoing Vice-Chancellor Max Price in July. She's joined the University of Cape TownÃâà...
News24
March 17, 2018
Cape Town – Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng is the newly appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town. Outgoing Vice-Chancellor Professor Max Price and Phakeng addressed the media on Saturday after the university council made a unanimous decision. Phakeng said she was "humbled"Ãâà...
HuffPost Canada
March 16, 2018
"People didn't believe anything like this could happen, but I think the reality has dawned on everyone and it is pretty tense," University of Cape Town hydrologist Piotr Wolski told Smithsonian magazine. piyaset via Getty Images. Cape Town is entering its fourth year of drought — the worst in 100 years, withÃâà...
Green Car Congress (blog)
March 8, 2018
The University of Cape Town (UCT) (South Africa) and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that is centred around hydrogen technologies. Experts from both institutions will collaborate in activities to accelerate progress in the fields of hydrogenÃâà...
News24
March 2, 2018
"For nearly three years, the sculpture stood at the centre of the main library of the University of Cape Town, grotesquely demonstrating the university's trashing of freedom of expression', wrote Goldblatt. "All who passed, bore witness to the violation of Willie Bester's art, yet few said anything and no one liftedÃâà...
Business Day
March 1, 2018
Amid a fresh dispute on transformation at the University of Cape Town, the institution's Black Academic Caucus (BAC) is seeking legal advice over the appointment of Lis Lange as deputy vice-chancellor for teaching and learning. The BAC, which is a collective of black academics, says a more suitablyÃâà...
News24
March 1, 2018
Cape Town – The University of Cape Town has dismissed rumours circulating on social media that Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has been appointed as its new vice-chancellor. "Prof Phakeng has not been appointed. The approval by Senate this afternoon is part of a process that is continuing," UCTÃâà...
Times LIVE
February 26, 2018
Students and lecturers alike will now need to use 50% less water every day‚ across all campuses at the University of Cape Town. Failure could risk heavy penalties being imposed on the institution. A letter from the vice-chancellor's desk on Monday states that UCT's intention is to achieve this reduction inÃâà...
Creamer Media's Engineering News
December 31, 1999
Enter the SAP Next-Gen Lab at the University of Cape Town, a first-of-its-kind facility on the African continent that aims to foster closer collaborative relationships between universities, students and the broader corporate sector. According to Ann Rosenberg, Senior Vice President and Global Head of SAPÃâà...
Times LIVE
December 31, 1999
Every weekday morning, Tom Truter arrives at work at the University of Cape Town just before 6am, picks up the Jammie Shuttle he will drive that day, then parks behind the Clarinus Village residential hall. Truter then puts the hour before he hits the road to good use: he pulls out the violin stowed behindÃâà...
News24
December 31, 1999
Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng started her education under a tree and had to walk up to 10km just to get to school. Today, she is a full professor in mathematics education. She is also preparing to take over from Max Price as the vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town from July. Perhaps foretellingÃâà...
Eyewitness News
December 31, 1999
CAPE TOWN – University of Cape Town's (UCT) Black Academic Caucus says newly appointed Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng's excellent track record will ensure positive change at the institution. The council has this past weekend officially announced Phakeng will take over fromÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Mamokgethi Phakeng, the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, has said that she wants to create a university culture where young people felt their issues were being heard without needing to resort to protest action. Phakeng, the first black woman to earn a PhD in MathematicsÃâà...
