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News

Daily news update: Facebook rapist escaped from jail, ANC caucus plot for 2024, and EFF slam Uganda’s anti-homosexual bill

Celebs And Viral

WATCH: ‘I almost fainted’ – UCT student describes spotting Idris Elba

Entertainment

Angelique Kidjo guns for more Grammys in 2023

South Africa

UCT: Government ready to step in as strike, investigations rock Africa’s top university

South Africa

UCT crisis: SRC, black academics back planned probe

PSL

Sundowns Ladies winger admits Super League is tougher this season

South Africa

Paul Ngobeni, Mkhwebane’s CR17 legal advisor, not registered with Legal Practice Council

South Africa

Only one South African university ranked in top 300 in the world

News

Red tape hindering trade of mopane worms in southern Africa

PSL

Chiefs boss Dr Kaizer humbled by UCT’s Doctorate honour

News

UCT probing sexual assault allegations against professor

News

UCT SRC leaders removed over rape allegations

South Africa

Small fire breaks out at UCT campus, doused after a couple of hours

Business

UCT urged to ‘de-coal-inise’ by divesting from fossil fuels

South Africa

Solidarity to UCT: Scrap mandatory vaccinations or see you in court

South Africa

UCT adopts mandatory Covid-19 vaccination policy ‘in principle’

South Africa

UCT considering mandatory vaccinations for staff, students

Health

UCT vice-chancellor apologises to LGBTQIA community over intersex lecture

Education

Campaigns launched to help quell GBV on campus

South Africa

Remembering Uyinene Mrwetyana: UCT’s Phakeng calls for protection of women, girls

Education

UCT launches the first online high school in Africa

News

Two UCT students suspended following sexual assault allegations

South Africa

UCT dismisses former lecturer’s ‘hush money’ allegations

News

Stellenbosch University Vice-Chancellor denies English-only policy as SAHRC starts inquiry

News

8 000 crates donated to UCT for storing academic material

Education

UCT fire: students tell how they grabbed textbooks and laptops and fled

South Africa

Scholars mourn thousands of antiquities lost in Cape Town fire

South Africa

UCT students in limbo after Table Mountain fires

South Africa

Minister’s home ‘completely destroyed’ by Cape Town fire

South Africa

WATCH: Firefighters continue to battle Cape Town fires

Multimedia

Lushaba’s ‘Hitler’ lecture: 12 seconds of injustice

Education

UCT distances itself from lecturer’s ‘Hitler’ comments

Health

Race-based university admission policies: what’s the reality?

Education

The ‘Michiel Kühn saga’: Education MEC accused of ‘race-baiting’

Education

UCT students with historical debt will be allowed to register

Education

WATCH: UCT students protest financial exclusion

Education

UCT SRC claims 2,500 students risk ‘financial exclusion’

Education

UCT students ‘left hungry for days’ after being served ‘rotten food’

Education

UCT to finish the 2020 academic year through remote teaching

Education

UCT to complete academic year through remote teaching

Business

Illicit suppliers now run tobacco market, rob SA of R35m a day – Batsa

Education

UCT affirms support for vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng

Education

UCT’s historic vote appoints two women as chair and deputy simultaneously

Opinion

Political panderers in academia voids critical thought

Education

UCT releases damning report into Prof Mayosi’s death

South Africa

Testing glitches and ‘skewed results’ threaten level 3

Education

UCT reveals first group of students to be allowed back, but no dates confirmed yet

Education

UCT provides pre-paid data at no cost to students for online learning

Education

UCT reaches agreement with Cell C, Telkom to zero-rate data for academic sites

South Africa

UCT records seventh Covid-19 case

South Africa

UCT confirms sixth positive coronavirus case

South Africa

UCT assisting students to return home ahead of national lockdown

South Africa

UCT urges students to go home due to lockdown

South Africa

Fourth positive coronavirus case at UCT

Education

Another UCT staffer tests positive for coronavirus

South Africa

Nzimande urges universities to take social distance protocols seriously to combat virus

Education

UCT suspends all classes after staff member contracts Covid-19, declares early holiday

Education

UCT graduations suspended amid Covid-19 concerns

Education

Twitter slams UCT ‘spending R3m’ on 10 patrol vehicles to ‘help ensure students’ safety’

News

UCT urges staff and students to report GBV allegations internally, not on social media

Education

The ideal of the university is under threat, Jonathan Jansen warns students

Tech and Science

How UCT finally reburied its ‘unethically obtained’ skeletons

News

San, Khoe remains obtained unethically by UCT in the ’20s to finally rest in peace

Travel

Losing five students in two months has been extremely difficult – UCT vice-chancellor

Crime

Family, friends of murdered UCT student hold final farewell in KZN

News

UCT at fault for student’s drowning – Mkhwebane

Crime

UCT establishes special tribunal to report gender-based violence

Education

UCT suspends academic activities for the week to allow campus community to ‘heal’

News

Uyinene’s family: Her murder is ‘the most inconceivable and catastrophic time of our lives’

Education

Anger at UCT vice-chancellor over campus safety

News

#RIPUyinene: Her parents aren’t coping, they’re not OK – UCT vice-chancellor

News

Man arrested in connection with UCT student’s disappearance

Local News

Search continues as PI hired to help find missing UCT student Uyinene

Education

Malema, Zille could become UCT’s new chancellor

Education

SA Zionist Federation welcomes UCT’s decision on Israeli universities boycott