University of Cape Town

Located on the slopes of Devil’s Peak in Cape Town, the University of Cape Town is a leading, research-intensive university in South Africa and on the continent, known for its academic excellence and pioneering scholarship. The university is home to a third of South Africa’s A-rated researchers (acknowledged by the Department of Science and Technology as international leaders in their field) and a fifth of the country’s national research chairs. UCT encourages students and staff to use their expertise to speed up social change and economic development across the country and continent, while pursuing the highest standards of excellence in academic knowledge and research: developing African solutions to African challenges that are also shared by developing nations around the world.

UCT, like the city of Cape Town, has a vibrant, cosmopolitan community drawn from all corners of South Africa. It also attracts students and staff from more than 100 countries in Africa and the rest of the world. The university has strong partnerships and networks with leading African and other international institutions - helping to enrich the academic, social and cultural diversity of the campus as well as to extend the reach of UCT’s academic work.

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Botswana’s long-awaited policy on older people is awaiting approval by President Duma Boko’s cabinet. MONIRUL BHUIYAN/AFP via Getty Images

Botswana’s hike of old age pensions hasn’t fixed the problem of who cares for the elderly – new study

Elena Moore, University of Cape Town; Dolly Mogomotsi Ntseane, University of Botswana; Gwen Lesetedi, University of Botswana; Vayda Megannon, University of Cape Town, and Zeenat Samodien, University of Cape Town

Caregivers in Botswana are being asked to do more with less.
Emissions from the Sappi-Saiccor paper pulp mill in uMkhomazi, south of Durban, South Africa. Gift777/Getty Images

South Africa’s carbon tax should stay: climate scientists explain why

Britta Rennkamp, University of Cape Town; Andrew Marquard, University of Cape Town; Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town; Harald Winkler, University of Cape Town; Mark New, University of Cape Town; Melanie Murcott, University of Cape Town; Ralph Hamann, University of Cape Town, and Wikus Kruger, University of Cape Town

Polluting companies in South Africa have had to pay a tax on their carbon emissions since 2019. This gives them a good incentive to reduce emissions.
The Komati power plant community in South Africa suffered after Eskom closed it down in 2022 because workers were not offered new jobs or retrained. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

South Africa is moving away from coal – how mines and power stations could be used for green energy and farming

Sandeep Pai, Duke University and Jennifer Lee Broadhurst, University of Cape Town

The South African government and coal industry need to move fast to set up a plan to turn old coal mines and power stations into job-creating hubs after they close.
Jubilee District Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo by Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Public healthcare and contracting out: can it work? Global review presents some answers

Zoheb Khan, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP); University of Johannesburg; Frederico Haddad, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), and Leslie London, University of Cape Town

Contracting out healthcare requires state capacity and public participation.
Falar em restituição não se trata de recuperar um passado perdido, que não pode ser restaurado, mas de criar novos futuros baseados na justiça, dignidade e respeito para comunidades em todo o mundo que ainda vivem com o legado da expropriação colonial. Albert~nlwiki / Wikimedia Commons

“Repatriação” ou “restituição”? A importância da palavra na devolução de artefatos africanos pilhados no período colonial

Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town and Ciraj Rassool, University of the Western Cape

Distinção não é questão acadêmica: repatriação dá ênfase a quem devolve, enquanto restituição muda foco para quem reivindica, afirma seus direitos e exige justiça.
Dinosaur footprints at Morija, Lesotho, in 1906. The person standing in front of the rock slab covered with tridactyl fossil footprints is not identified. Photos courtesy of the Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution of the University of Montpellier, France

Fossil science owes a debt to indigenous knowledge: Lesotho missionary’s notes tell the story

Julien Benoit, University of the Witwatersrand; Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University, and Emese M Bordy, University of Cape Town

Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was early citizen science.
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