The University of Cape Town (UCT) has attributed its top ranking to the outstanding efforts of its academic staff.

Footage of a honey badger has been captured near UCT, challenging the caracal’s status as a top predator on Table Mountain.

Whistle-blower and former employee Professor Ndangwa Noyoo has accused the University of Cape Town of dishonesty.

From the dusty streets of Qwaqwa, the Free State top achiever registered to become a student at the University of Cape Town.

If you’re a student looking for a last-minute enrolment, here are South Africa’s top universities in 2024 to aim at.

Nota Baloyi was blasted by X users after he shared a rather nasty comment about former UCT VC Mamokgethi Phakeng.

‘Cry a bit louder’: Prof Phakeng has clapped back harshly at X users who called her out for posting a photo with her belly button showing.

The 2024 subject rankings highlights remarkable global performance of South African universities, with these THREE institutions excelling.

The University of Cape Town is the only institution ranked within the Top 300 globally. Here’s how other SA universities rank.

Nomzamo Mbatha has gained much success. In an interview she did recently, she opened up about her childhood traumas and failing at UCT.

Struggling UCT student Zuki Lamani’s partying videos have been trending after they resurfaced on the internet after her R240 000 plea.

The EFF invited Prof Lumumba to deliver a public lecture at UCT in July as part of the party’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

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Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) who have embarked on a strike over fee blocks have clashed with the police on Friday, 10 March.

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UCT students say they won’t retreat nor surrender as they call for the University to lift the fee block for over 7 000 students.

Every South African university has been ranked based on the quality, quantity and access to their web content, using open data.

UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng to vacate her position on 3 March. Professor Sue Harrison, currently serves as Acting Vice-Chancellor

Following early retirement reports UCT vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng tells her supporters that she is ‘okay’ and ‘happy’.

UCT council reportedly to suspended Vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng, pending investigation into the university’s governance and her.

One of South Africa’s top matriculants for the 2022 academic year plans to study actuarial science at UCT.

Academic staff at UCT are prepared to strike for the first time in the university’s history over a 3% pay increase offer.

UCT Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has been heavily criticised by the late Prof Bongani Mayosi’s sister. Here’s why..

The family of a UCT professor who ended his own life, has penned a scathing letter to VC Mamokgethi Phakeng

AfriForum Youth is preparing to lay criminal charges against Pierre de Vos for allegedly distributing child pornography on Twitter.

AfriForum Youth is preparing to lay criminal charges against Pierre de Vos for allegedly distributing child pornography on Twitter.

A former University of Cape Town (UCT) student who was publicly accused of rape has won the lawsuit. R300 000 coming his way

Oprah Winfrey has praised and congratulated UCT VC Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng for winning the Africa Education Medal.

A video on social media showing a University of Cape Town (UCT) student arriving on campus in a Lamborghini Huracan has gone viral.

A video on social media shows a University of Cape Town (UCT) student arriving at the campus in a Lamborghini Huracan has gone viral.

In the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities nine South African higher education institutions made it to the list.

A new global ranking has listed all 26 of South Africa’s universities based on the quality, quantity and access to their web content.

‘I’m a chiller’: UCT vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng defended her appearance on MacG and Sol Phenduka’s podcast.

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After an anonymous student accused a UCT professor of rape and sexual harassment an investigation was conducted by the WCDH.

The latest QS World University Rankings have listed UCT as the best university in Africa but its score has dropped in recent years.

UCT called the SAPS on a group of individuals who are neither employees nor students who disrupted mid-year exams on Monday, 6 June.

UCT Vice-Chancellor, Mamokgethi Phakeng has apologised for her tweet which angered many to an allegedly raped student.

An anonymous student from the University of Cape Town has alleged that she was raped by a Professor while security officers were watching.

DBN Gogo’s attempt to defend her #RHOLagos look failed when her old tweets – in which she trolled Bonang and other celebrities – resurfaced.

GoodLuck, Msaki, Shekhinah and YoungstaCPT wowed the crowd at Huawei KDay with a performance of UCT Online High School’s ‘We Own The Future’.

The UCT SRC president was suspended for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting a first-year student in October 2021.

To celebrate International Day of Education, UCT Online School launched its first-ever school song with SA’s award-winning artists.

The University of Cape Town’s vice-chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, says the fire was reported on Wednesday evening

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) joins five other South African universities to adopt the mandatory vaccination policy on campus.

New research has shown how tuition fees at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have increased steadily from the simple sum of R54 a year in 1923

Tshegofatso Masenya, a fifth-year medical student at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has developed a crowdfunding app for tuition fees.

The US News & World Report published its 2022 edition which sees six South African Universities ranked among the top 500 in the world.

From 1 January 2022, UCT students and staff will ne required to show proof of vaccination before entering the institution’s premises

Graduates of UCT remain among the world’s most employable, according to the 2022 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employability Rankings

The motion to make vaccines compulsory for UCT students and staff members was passed after 83% voted in favour of it

The Gender Diversity Coalition has lashed out against hurtful remarks made at the University of Cape Town’s open lecture, titled ‘What does Science say about LGBTQI+’,

The country’s university students had the opportunity to rate their institutions, which saw the University of Pretoria take top honours.

The rankings are based on assessments of 1 662 universities from 99 countries and includes an analysis of 108 million citations

South Africa’s six-month tobacco ban during lockdown level 5 last year reduced the number of smokers in the country by 30%. Are they puffing again?

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set to give a lecture at UCT, but the university’s SRC has called for a boycott after her comments on trans women.

The University of Cape Town is making history as the university breaks boundaries in Africa by launching the continent’s first-ever online high school.

The University of Cape Town has selected Luhlanganiso Majebe as the first recipient of the scholarship named after Uyinene Mrwetyana who was brutally murdered in 2019.

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Students expressed challenges with time management, distraction and problems associated with family members during the Covid-19 pandemic.

UCT has thanked all volunteers who helped salvage the Jagger Library after it was destroyed by last week’s devastating fire.

Two burnt piglets found caged and padlocked near UCT upper campus did not suffer. They were stillborn and part of a research study.

A helicopter refilling its water bucket was spotted by eager residents during the recent Cape Town blaze.

A devastating fire in Cape Town has destroyed valuable intellectual records of African studies at the University of Cape Town Library.

While some of the Jagger Library’s valuable collections have been lost, a full assessment can only be done once the building has been declared safe.

This is a tough watch for anyone who values our cultural institutions: UCT Library has been battered by the Cape Town fire on Sunday evening.

Lwazi Lushaba is in hot water for his recent statements about Adolf Hitler, with UCT officials now investigating the professor’s utterances.

The student, who used the k-word in a post earlier this week, was subjected to a disciplinary meeting and saw her title revoked.

The team of scientists at Cape Bio Pharms has been using Nicotiana benthamiana plants, a close relative of tobacco, as a bioreactor to produce COVID-19 proteins and antibodies.

The Women in Science programme was launched in 2010 to encourage the participation of young African women in science.

UCT’s SRC will join the EFF and other groups in protesting alleged racism and subsequent police brutality in Brackenfell on Friday

Unlike most theme parks, what government has in store will not be equipped with rollercoasters

Across the world, the higher education sector is changing because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A surge in xenophobic rhetoric on Twitter has been observed, and the #PutSouthAfricansFirst tag is believed to be at the centre of it.

Cape Town is the only South African university to make the top 200 of an international annual review, ahead of Wits and Stellenbosch.

Four men are said to have broken into the residence in Thohoyandou before raping and robbing students of their belongings

KwaZulu-Natal teacher Hebert Muzi Gumbi has won the UCT award for showing outstanding commitment to his learners and their long-term success.

The decision to end the 2020 academic year with remote teaching at UCT has been approved by senate and council.

You can now pre-book appointments at your local salon, thanks to UCT students who developed an app to limit queueing times.

UCT professor, Nicoli Nattrass was at a centre of a race row after publishing a paper deemed offensive to black students.

A study by a UCT professor – which questions the academic choices of black South Africans – has been emphatically dismissed by the university itself.

The UVC sanitiser, formulated to combat the spread of COVID-19, will be able to disinfect surfaces, the air and large rooms.

UCT said it will notify groups of students who will be invited to return. It will also notify them as to what date they can be back on campus under Level 3.

Goal-setting application for students, WOOP, has become the first app of its kind translated into isiXhosa thanks to the University of Cape Town.

Officials at UCT have revealed how they plan to reopen the campus and welcome back students – and other SA universities could follow suit.

Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) are working on a smartphone app that could play an important role in managing future outbreaks of COVID-19 and economic recovery.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) says that unlike the previous four cases of coronavirus, the latest case was confirmed in KwaZulu-Natal.

The latest confirmation brings the tally of infected UCT staff members to three. All are currently in quarantine.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) confirmed that another member of staff will be in self-isolation after testing positive for the coronavirus.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) will shut down various facilities and events to further manage the unprecedented coronavirus.

University students – mainly from UCT and Limpopo – partied hard on Sunday night after their classes were cancelled by coronavirus. Not a bright idea…

UCT have heeded the call of President Cyril Ramaphosa to facilitate social distancing and have agreed to end the term and send students home.

As the spread of coronavirus intensifies, so do the cancellation and postponement of events. Here’s how you can keep track of it all.

Huawei South Africa has partnered with the University of Cape Town (UCT) to fund 15 students as part of the firm’s external bursary programme.

The incredible story of Mamokgethi Phakeng and her goal to make educational achievements trend.

The murder that sparked a movement returned to court this week. More shocking details of Uyinene Mrwetyana’s death have been made public.

The five students who lost their lives were all studying in the Faculty of Humanities.

Rhodes University has rebuked the unauthorised projects that are using the family’s grief to “cash in” on the tragedy

The DA wants more to be done to end violence at universities and colleges.

SAPO has fired the man arrested for Uyinene Mrwetyana’s murder.