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Boycotting Israel — UCT’s decision should balance moral outrage with long-term costs to the university
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Why do we usually sleep at night? What happens when we don’t sleep? Expert insights into this essential part of our lives
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Why do we usually sleep at night? What happens when we don’t sleep? Expert ...
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Scientists close in on TB blood test that could detect millions of silent spreaders
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Scientists close in on TB blood test that could detect millions of silent ...
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SSANU/NASU: Saving varsities from strikes: the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities and ...
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SSANU/NASU: Saving varsities from strikes
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Feeding the beast — big companies’ funding of health research is a cause for concern
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Feeding the beast — big companies’ funding of health research is a cause ...
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Single-dose HPV shot grants women improved chances of avoiding cervical cancer: The single-dose human papillomavirus vaccination has now been approved for use in ...
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Single-dose HPV shot grants women improved chances of avoiding cervical ...
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Top forensic pathologist looks back as Cape Town gets shiny new mortuary: Prof Lorna Martin speaks about her career working on high-profile cases and the nearly ...
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Top forensic pathologist looks back as Cape Town gets shiny new mortuary
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Meet the remarkable individuals set to receive UCT's honorary doctorates: The University of Cape Town (UCT) is set to bestow honorary doctorates upon six ...
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Meet the remarkable individuals set to receive UCT's honorary doctorates
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UCT Online High School learner is the country’s top SACAI-accredited achiever: A UCT Online High School learner from Kimberley in the Northern Cape was named the ...
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UCT Online High School learner is the country’s top SACAI-accredited ...
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South Africa: UCT Invites Disgraced Ex-Eskom Boss for 'Ethics' Lecture - South African News Briefs - March ...
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South Africa: UCT Invites Disgraced Ex-Eskom Boss for 'Ethics' Lecture - ...
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South Africa: Big Companies, Like Nestlé, Are Funding Health Research in South Africa - Why This Is Wrong
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BHEKISISA | Can South Africa stop cervical cancer in the next 40 years?: In 40 years, South African women want to be where Australians are now: cervical cancer ...
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BHEKISISA | Can South Africa stop cervical cancer in the next 40 years?
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Almost quarter of magistrates threatened because of their work: survey: Perceived corruption, safety and security and heavy workloads have been identified as ...
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Almost quarter of magistrates threatened because of their work: survey
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Hotter weather and a recurring drought in store for Cape Town soon, experts warn: If you think the 35ºC heat on Friday was hot, then it is likely you will be ...
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Hotter weather and a recurring drought in store for Cape Town soon ...
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M&G Critical Thinking Forum | State of the Nation Address: Join the Mail & Guardian, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and a panel of experts at the post-State of the ...
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M&G Critical Thinking Forum | State of the Nation Address
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UCT interim vice-chancellor warns of ‘no work no pay’ for striking union workers: UCT interim vice-chancellor says the strike is ‘non-compliant’ but the ...
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UCT interim vice-chancellor warns of ‘no work no pay’ for striking union ...
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Artist of the Year: Superb soprano Pretty Yende hits a high note: Pretty Yende is an artist at the height of her powers, crooning for no less than a king.
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Artist of the Year: Superb soprano Pretty Yende hits a high note
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UCT begins search for a new vice chancellor: The University of Cape Town (UCT) has officially begun a search for the next vice chancellor by placing an advert ...
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UCT begins search for a new vice chancellor
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What a stinker of a year — but perhaps 2024 can be our 1994: Eskom, infrastructure collapse, war in the Middle East: the list goes on, with only sport providing ...
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What a stinker of a year — but perhaps 2024 can be our 1994
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How to design inclusive value chains to improve the lives of smallholder farmers: Smallholder farming is the source of livelihood for more than two billion ...
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How to design inclusive value chains to improve the lives of smallholder ...
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Uganda’s Stella Musungu shines in South Africa: This recognition is a prestigious gift, and being honoured in this way fills me with pride and fulfillment.
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Uganda’s Stella Musungu shines in South Africa
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NSFAS funding reduction could affect thousands of students next year: Projected R13.7bn reduction in funding by the National Treasury could spell doom for ...
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NSFAS funding reduction could affect thousands of students next year
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Weekend Wrap #67: Explore the standout moments of 2023 in "The Big Read" – a curated collection of highlights that defined the year
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Weekend Wrap #67
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Parents urged to be vigilant as vaping by adolescents rises: A recent study by the University of Cape Town Lung Institute found that almost 7 000 learners vape ...
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Parents urged to be vigilant as vaping by adolescents rises
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'Unforeseen technical glitches' blamed as UCT staff salaries not paid: The University of Cape Town has apologised to staff who were not paid their ...
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'Unforeseen technical glitches' blamed as UCT staff salaries not ...
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What if your co-worker was a bird?: In parts of Africa, birds and humans work together to find honey. A new study shows their relationship is even closer than ...
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What if your co-worker was a bird?
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Weekend Wrap #67: Explore the standout moments of 2023 in "The Big Read" – a curated collection of highlights that defined the year
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Weekend Wrap #67
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‘We heard a scream’: final minutes before CPUT student was stabbed: A student is recovering in hospital after she was stabbed 20 times by her husband in broad ...
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‘We heard a scream’: final minutes before CPUT student was stabbed
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The truth about Mamokgethi Phakeng’s qualifications — a response to ‘Anonymous’: There can be no question that UCT’s recruitment and selection policy and process ...
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Former UCT Council chair Babalwa Ngonyama resigns from another board after independent panel report
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Former UCT Council chair Babalwa Ngonyama resigns from another board after ...
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AG Tsakani Maluleke to turn economic screws at Unesco with new appointment: Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke will next year join the United Nations Educational ...
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AG Tsakani Maluleke to turn economic screws at Unesco with new appointment
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‘The situation is not going away’ — inspiring TB doctor on disasters, miracles and empathy
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‘The situation is not going away’ — inspiring TB doctor on disasters ...
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DA probes claims Cape PR councillor lied about medical degrees: The DA is probing allegations that a City of Cape Town PR councillor lied about his ...
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DA probes claims Cape PR councillor lied about medical degrees
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‘People used to think AI was the terminator robots’: UCT professor and AI expert Deshen Moodley is at the forefront of developing next-generation AI systems to ...
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‘People used to think AI was the terminator robots’
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JACKET NOTES | Justin Fox on 'Place: South African Literary Journeys': 'The idea behind 'Place' was to embark on a journey around SA using ...
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Sipho Pityana’s criticism of the UCT investigative panel’s report on former VC is ‘misleading, baseless and insincere’
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Sipho Pityana’s criticism of the UCT investigative panel’s report on ...
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Degrees of disorder — top varsities UCT and UWC in turmoil over vice-chancellors: The troubles at top varsities UCT and UWC have sparked a debate over whether ...
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Degrees of disorder — top varsities UCT and UWC in turmoil over ...
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South Africa: NSFAS Blames Universities for Failing to Pay Students' Allowances: Nearly 100,000 students have not yet received their November allowances ...
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South Africa: NSFAS Blames Universities for Failing to Pay Students' ...
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South Africa’s 2022 census missed 31% of people — big data could help in future: Stats SA needs to fully engage with the world of big data and the key players in ...
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South Africa’s 2022 census missed 31% of people — big data could help in ...
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South Africa: Vigils Held in Cape Town for Gaza War: People gathered at Parliament and at the University of Cape Town to express solidarity with Palestine
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South Africa: Vigils Held in Cape Town for Gaza War
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EFF scores victories and ANC suffers setbacks in battle for soul of universities: OPINION: The electoral victories of the EFF at universities has shifted the ...
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EFF scores victories and ANC suffers setbacks in battle for soul of ...
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Tackling the disconnect between colleges and communities: A blueprint for strengthening the power of TVET education to grow society and the economy
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Tackling the disconnect between colleges and communities
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Statues and Storms: Rhodes Must Fall – an idea whose time had come: In this extract from his book, ex-UCT vice-chancellor Dr Max Price recounts the Rhodes Must ...
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Statues and Storms: Rhodes Must Fall – an idea whose time had come
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South African Men More Likely to Die From TB Than Women - Report: Research to establish the various factors for the higher rates of Tuberculosis (TB) and death ...
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South African Men More Likely to Die From TB Than Women - Report
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Research to establish the various factors for the higher rates of Tuberculosis (TB) and death among men, compared to women in South Africa ... Show more
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Bedevilled by bureaucracy – Fort Hare VC decries erosion of university autonomy, academic freedom
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Bedevilled by bureaucracy – Fort Hare VC decries erosion of university ...
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Africa's Climate Agenda - Project Syndicate: 08/30/2023 1:00 PM CEST Virtual 5 Speakers
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Africa's Climate Agenda - Project Syndicate
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The Mungai, Waiyaki Fort Hare University links that shaped Kenya's policy on apartheid
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Uyinene Mrwetyana’s family want Post Office transformed into “a place of healing”
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Dinosaur tracksite in Lesotho: how a wrong turn led to an exciting find: Fossilised tracks of a group of plant-eating dinosaurs have been found in Lesotho’s Roma ...
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Dinosaur tracksite in Lesotho: how a wrong turn led to an exciting find
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Women in health – ‘No one taught me how to treat a sick system’, says leading young prof
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Women in health – ‘No one taught me how to treat a sick system’ ...
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Africa's Climate Agenda - Project Syndicate: 08/30/2023 1:00 PM CEST Virtual 5 Speakers
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Quick Glance: Africa proposes global CO2 tax to combat climate change
  • African Climate Summit focuses on financing for weather adaptation, conservation, and renewable energy

  • Global carbon tax idea lacks support

  • Call for carbon tax welcomed, but false solutions like carbon credits should be avoided

  • Billions committed to green projects, including a major carbon markets initiative
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Cabinet confirms Duncan Pieterse as new Treasury DG: Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has confirmed that Duncan Pieterse has been appointed as the ...
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Cabinet confirms Duncan Pieterse as new Treasury DG
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The creation of a loss and damage fund for developing countries affirms the principle that while climate change affects everyone ... Show more