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Where is the class of 2014?
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Making a MOOC
Given UCT's recent entry into the world of massive open online courses (MOOCs), Monday Monthly spoke to Sukaina Walji of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT)'s MOOC team for an...
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Genuine alternatives?
The charge often levelled at those trying to find alternatives to traditional fossil-fuelled energy generation methods is that renewable energy sources are inefficient and expensive. Guy Cunliffe,...
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Students for sustainable living
It's about everybody. We should all be invested. We should all want to change, and we can all be drivers of change in even the smallest ways. Members of the Green Campus Initiative sit on Jammie Stairs...
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Carbon-based living
Professor Harald Winkler, director of UCT's Energy Research Centre, shares some insights into South Africa's policies on carbon emissions and where we should be headed. Could you give us an outline of...
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Climate change: A developmental issue
Dr Gina Ziervogel says we could and should be doing more to protect vulnerable communities from the effects of climate change, such as those living in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town township that floods...
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Slowing global warming is like turning an oil tanker
The Japanese Meteorological Society measured 2014 as the hottest year on record – this while the Earth is meant to be in a cooling stage. With the help of a number of UCT researchers, Monday...
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Ask an expert: Heated debates
Monday Monthly launches an 'Ask an Expert' series where we get experts in the UCT-community to speak on a range of pressing issues. This time we approached students and staff to speak on a topic that...
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Finding common ground in comparative law
It was a chance sighting while in Kenya some years back that set Professor Salvatore Mancuso on his path – and later took him to the helm of the law faculty's young Centre for Comparative Law...
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Labour intensive
Lesotho is sub-Saharan Africa's largest exporter of clothing to the United States, supplying retailers such as Gap, Levi Strauss, Timberland and Walmart. Clothing factories, which include South...
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Africa's paradox of plenty
That Africa is a continent of contradictions is starkly apparent in the great poverty that rides in tandem with its great mineral wealth. Researchers call it the 'resource curse', or the 'paradox of...
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Dynamic, not static
Customary law has been at the core of Africa's legal systems for centuries, in matters from birth to death and for everything in between: marriage, land ownership, succession and inheritance,...
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Beyond biopiracy
Early stone tools fashioned by our hominid ancestors in sub-Saharan Africa show that innovation based on local knowledge has old roots in the continent. This early African innovation continued in...
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Law in Africa
Some of the world's oldest legal systems began in Africa. In the north, the ancient Egyptian kingdom used a civil code, founded on the idea of Ma'at, the cornerstones of which are tradition, rhetorical...
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Just in time
Have a look at our timeline of UCT law staff and students who have been contributing to justice in South Africa over the years. 1859 The first law lecture in South Africa is delivered on 16 April at...
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Open justice
Within UCT's law faculty there are various programmes and entities helping make knowledge of the law more publicly accessible. They range from repositories for written law, to clinics providing legal...
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A word from the dean
Law might be the smallest of the six faculties, but its footprint is large – whether you're talking about the impact its staff and students continue to have on society, the largesse of its...
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Digging below the surface
At the heart of this month's edition of Monday Monthly, there's an apt metaphor for our changing approach to this publication. You'll find a map of main campus, but looked at not just from the surface....
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An inconvenient truth
Glenda Wildschut Transformation Services Office "History is shaped by the storytellers, and their narratives become the dominant and entrenched discourse for generations, and written into historical...
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