Smoking 'app' for clinicians
UCT pulmonologist Dr Richard van Zyl-Smit is developing a web-based computer app for clinicians, providing standardised assessments of patients who want to stop smoking. The app is linked to a...
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Electronic cigarettes: Smoke and mirrors?
Electronic cigarettes may be new on the market, and expensive (unless you're buying a Chinese knock-off), but they've plugged a gap for many smokers wanting to quit, particularly in the wake of...
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Smoked: does the province stand a chance?
TB fight back: Dr Grant Theron (middle), lead study author, and Richard Meldau (far right), co-author, together with Professor Keertan Dheda, demonstrate the workings of the Gene Xpert TB machine....
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TB machine innovations could be rolled out nationally
TB fight back: Dr Grant Theron (middle), lead study author, and Richard Meldau (far right), co-author, together with Professor Keertan Dheda, demonstrate the workings of the Gene Xpert TB machine....
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Winds of change for higher education
New head of CHED: Assoc Prof Suellen Shay Two trial paint samples on the walls and books in boxes signal change at the Centre for Higher Education on upper campus. New dean Associate Professor Suellen...
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The effect of ice-cap melt: data collection innovation
Gathering data: Dr Isabelle Ansorge, chief scientist Marcel van den Berg, and French technician Michel Hamon about to deploy a Current Pressure Inverted Echo-Sounder (CPIES) into the South Atlantic....
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An app to end the transport woes
On the go: A large portion of Cape Town's population relies solely on public transport. No commuter is a stranger to the havoc wreaked by last-minute changes on public transport schedules - which is...
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UCT researchers shine at MRC awards UCT scientists featured prominently at the Medical Research Council's (MRC) recent merit award ceremony, with "the highest honour in medical research in the...
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Major boost for mobile video streaming
Information superhighway: Uninterrupted videostreaming on mobile devices is now possible in developing countries like South Africa after a patent was developed by UCT researchers. The dearth of high...
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News in pictures
Brain drain:Students in the Sport's Centre write furiously as they battle the clock during end-of-year exams.They were among thousands of UCT students to tackle hundreds of examination papers over the...
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News in pictures
Calm after the storm:A student, oblivious to the arrival of a curious family of ducks, relaxes in the sun at the UCT swimming pool on lower campus after the stress of final exams. While December marks...
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2013: the year that was
What's up doc? - MBChB students celebrate crossing the final hurdle before graduating. The faculty's results bash was held outside the Barnard Fuller building recently, when the final exam results...
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Timeless legacy
Mandela stepped down in 1999 after one term as President. He set up three foundations bearing his name: The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and The Mandela-Rhodes...
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Negotiating peace
For a life that symbolises the triumph of the human spirit, Nelson Mandela accepted the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize (along with FW de Klerk) on behalf of all South Africans who suffered and sacrificed so...
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Prisoner 466/64
Not long after his return to South Africa, Mandela was arrested on 5 August 1962 and charged with illegal exit from the country and incitement to strike. He was in KwaZulu-Natal at the time, passing...
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The trial
In fact for much of the latter half of the decade, he was one of the 156 accused in the mammoth Treason Trial, at great cost to his legal practice and his political work, though he recalls that,...
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Emerging as a leader
At the 1949 Annual Conference the Programme of Action - inspired by the Youth League, which advocated the weapons of boycott, strike, civil disobedience and non-co-operation - was accepted as official...
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela: A legend in his own time
Early years Mirroring his famous wave from the Cape Town City Hall balcony following his release from prison ten months earlier, Nelson Mandela acknowledges the hundreds of guests attending his...
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Memories of Madiba
Honorary Doctorate On 30 November 1990, a few months after being released from prison, Nelson Mandela stepped onto the UCT Rugby Field to receive an honorary doctorate in Law. The university's Jameson...
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Mandela's visits always a special occasion
Mirroring his famous wave from the Cape Town City Hall balcony following his release from prison ten months earlier, Nelson Mandela acknowledges the hundreds of guests attending his honorary graduation...
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