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UCT Chancellor Dr Moloi-Motsepe honours women in heartfelt tribute
University of Cape Town (UCT) Chancellor Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe has, in celebration of Women’s Month, paid tribute to and commended women for their remarkable achievements – recognising that the journey to gender equality is often a long and onerous one, and one that has some way to go still in South Africa.
19 Aug 2021
Campaign highlights dangers of untreated iron deficiency disorder during pregnancy
The Division of Haematology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital has embarked on a massive international campaign to drive awareness on the dangers of untreated iron deficiency disorder during pregnancy. The drive seeks to highlight the importance of a pre‑pregnancy diagnosis, to initiate treatment and to avoid the enormous post‑birth ramifications for the unborn baby.
18 Aug 2021
COVID-19 heaps pressure on South African consumers across the board
South African households are facing significant financial strain. This is according to new analysis by the University of Cape Town (UCT) Liberty Institute of Strategic Marketing.
17 Aug 2021
More than 1.5 million children have lost a caregiver to COVID-19, global study
New research estimates that every 12 seconds, a child around the world loses a caregiver to COVID-19. This startling finding was presented in a research report titled “ Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study ”, published recently in The Lancet .
16 Aug 2021
In practice South Africa’s legal system falls short
Jameelah Omar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT), argues that although South Africa has a truly progressive constitution, the extent to which these laws actually work in practice falls far short of the ideal.
16 Aug 2021
T cells face off against variants to boost COVID-19 immunity, study finds
With the fight against COVID-19 beset with concerns around the efficacy of vaccines in the face of a mutating virus, University of Cape Town (UCT) virologists have shown that the body’s T cells maintain 85% of their capacity to detect variants, continuing to mount a substantial defence to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death.
12 Aug 2021
Instituting a living wage enables people to choose dignity - report
A recent report from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Development Policy Research Unit indicated that in quarter four of 2018, 46.6% of all minimum wage earners received below the national minimum wage in their sector, with numbers well above that in some major industries.
11 Aug 2021
Reminder: UCT’s virtual Women’s Day event with Miss South Africa 2020 and #ForWomxnByWomxn research grantees
The University of Cape Town will host a virtual Women’s Day event under the theme, ‘Social responsiveness and internationalisation’.
10 Aug 2021
Former TRC commissioner Yasmin Sooka to discuss why apartheid-era crimes are yet to be prosecuted
In her lecture titled, “Unfinished Business of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)”, former TRC commissioner and human rights lawyer Yasmin Sooka will focus on why nobody has been prosecuted under the Crime of Apartheid and how denial persists in our country that apartheid was declared a crime against humanity and that the apartheid state was a criminal state.
05 Aug 2021
Top chartered accountant to join UCT as finance executive director
The University of Cape Town has appointed Vincent Mohau Motholo as the new Executive Director: Finance. He will take up the position on 1 October 2021.
04 Aug 2021
UCT Women’s month expert list
The following academics at the University of Cape Town can be contacted by the media for comment during Women’s month.
03 Aug 2021
A recipe for home grown vaccines in plants – water, light and sugar
A new collaborative study undertaken between the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Biopharming Research Unit (BRU) and the University of Southampton’s Glycoprotein Therapeutics Laboratory has shed new light on how vaccine production in plants is impacted by the host plant machinery.
02 Aug 2021
Miss South Africa 2020 among inspirational speakers at UCT’s virtual Women’s Day event
Miss South Africa 2020, Shudufhadzo Musida, will be among accomplished and inspirational women on the University of Cape Town’s programme for the virtual Women’s Day event under the theme, ‘Social responsiveness and internationalisation’.
30 Jul 2021
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘Theory, a kind of idolatry’
A discussion that explored the “idolatry of theory: a defence of storytelling”, took centre stage during the second University of Cape Town (UCT) Vice-Chancellor’s (VC) Open Lecture for the year on Wednesday, 28 July.
29 Jul 2021
UCT drug discovery trailblazer honoured among innovative black biotech leaders
Professor Kelly Chibale, the founder and director of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), has been named among 22 rising black biotech leaders in the Timmerman Report , published in the United States (US). Professor Chibale is the only Africa‑based scientist included in the group.
28 Jul 2021
Western Cape Government recognises UCT occupational health specialist with service excellence award
Dr Itumeleng Ntatamala, occupational medicine specialist and senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences, was recently awarded silver in the category ‘Inspirational Support Employee’ in the Western Cape Government’s (WCG) 2020 Service Excellence Awards.
26 Jul 2021
UCT introduces new law and leadership scholarship
The Everard and Joan MacFarlane Family Leadership Scholarship for University of Cape Town (UCT) law students was launched recently. More than just a funding grant, the R15 million endowment aims to support students who display both academic excellence and leadership skills, through a holistic faculty‑based programme.
23 Jul 2021
Lockdown is taking a toll on mental health of pregnant women, study finds
COVID-19 lockdown is taking a toll on the mental health of pregnant women living in low-resource settings, suggests new study published in the Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology journal.
22 Jul 2021
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