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.