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Ingenuity in the making
The Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment is home to some clever machines and some canny experimental robots, produced by lecturers and postgraduate students. Here is a sample of the...
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Creating solutions: Water
WATER Not only do South Africans face the prospect of water shortages, but with ageing and insufficient water infrastructure, the spectre of substandard water quality is also a very real prospect. UCT...
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Creating solutions: Energy
ENERGY Since 2008, South Africa's energy sector has been battling an energy crisis, with the state‑owned power utility Eskom struggling to match supply and demand. UCT engineers are hard at...
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Students at work
The fruits of good engineering are enjoyed every day. These UCT EBE students make it their mission to create what some may take...
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Engineers who break the mould
Staff, students and alumni share their thoughts about re‑engineering some of the stereotypes and paradigms in the field. Compiled by Helen Swingler NEW GENERATION WIEBKE TOUSSAINT...
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Cities in the Global South: crucibles of change
The world is facing unprecedented rates of urbanisation, mainly in the Global South. Here, migrants seeking the benefits of cities head to swollen places already ill‑equipped to sustain...
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What's in a name?
What does your name say about you and your heritage? And what are your associations with your name? In Heritage Month, Helen Swingler asked members of the UCT community to reflect on their names. Photo...
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A word from the dean
TALENT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Prof Alison Lewis. Photo by Michael Hammond. To be an engineer before 1950, or any time between 1750 and 1950, was to be a leader; a participant in a great...
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What the constitution promises women
Women's rights to life, dignity and privacy are well protected by the country's progressive Constitution, says Associate Professor Waheeda Amien (Department of Public Law). But it's particularly...
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Conversations in community: Rock the hill
In the third of our new series getting to know the people of UCT, Helen Swingler interviewed rockabilly guitarist and musical and vintage mechanical curiosities collector Julian Mayer, who is also...
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One goal, one banner for feminists
Are women with feminisms rooted in different eras able to speak with one voice on big issues affecting them? And does it matter? Dr Nadia Sanger addressed this issue in a recent series, 'Conversations...
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Women's voices: lessons and wish lists
In celebration of Women's Month, senior psychology lecturer Dr Shose Kessi and her daughter Kinè Mokwena-Kessi (17) shed light on how values are passed from one generation of women to the...
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Women in numbers
What is the demographic profile of women in South Africa? What is their average age and where do most work? How many are formally employed? And what are the prevalent diseases that kill South African...
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Farewell to the 'everywhere man'
It's been a career defined by the 'politics of belonging' for outgoing Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Crain Soudien. In this interview with Monday Monthly he talks about his first day at UCT 42 years...
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Signs are changing with the times
Quinn Slobodian, author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany, wrote of West Germany's "own #RhodesMustFall moment". On the Africa is a Country blog, Slobodian recalled how...
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Pulse of a new day
It's the season of change. There's a tinge of orange left above Devil's Peak at 6pm, some oak trees threaten to sprout new leaves, and the first-year cohort are now veterans of their first full...
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Conversations in community: Second wind
Neonatal nurse trainer, midwife, paraglider, animal lover and high‑mountain trekker Hilary Barlow of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health is next up in our series of...
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A case study: How to turn the numbers around
Professor Jenni Case has been working in academic development in the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1996. She reflects on how the...
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Ingenuity in the making
The Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment is home to some clever machines and some canny experimental robots, produced by lecturers and postgraduate students. Here is a sample of the...
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Creating solutions: Water
Water Not only do South Africans face the prospect of water shortages, but with ageing and insufficient water infrastructure, the spectre of substandard water quality is also a very real prospect. UCT...
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