UCT researchers and international collaborators have shown that people in northern Mozambique use regionally distinct “dialects” when communicating with honeyguide birds.

Dr Claire Browning has led an international team of scientists to uncover fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped ...

A fond farewell to prof of the people Ahead of his retirement, UCT’s Faculty of Health Sciences held a farewell event in honour of Professor Leslie London on Tuesday, 9 December. 15 Dec 2025 Professor ...

The University of Cape Town (UCT) community and peers are deeply saddened by the passing of Alderman Owen Kinahan.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) places significant emphasis on effective financial management to ensure a combination of best practices, responsible stewardship, and forward thinking. This approach ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains an under-researched area, despite the large burden of disease it represents. There is currently little data on incidence, outcomes and quality of clinical care ...

Mismatch between employability assumptions, lived realities The Reach Alliance 2025 Conference created a space where case-study research, service-delivery realities, and policy questions came together ...

“The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how fractured South Africa’s democracy is, and just how unequal we are as a society. The biggest ticking timebomb we have in this country is inequality,” said Busi ...

Zak Essa, a recent graduate in economics from the University of Cape Town (UCT) who works at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Bulungula Incubator, and Tess Peacock, ...

After more than 30 years in the field, renowned paleobiologist, writer and professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan now has a sabre-tooth cat species – Lokotunjailurus ...

Mop-up operations are under way at the University of Cape Town (UCT), after a large-scale wildfire destroyed several historical buildings on UCT’s upper campus on Sunday, 18 April. In light of this, ...

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has made a decisive move in the global education debate on artificial intelligence (AI) by officially adopting a university-wide framework that sets out how AI ...