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Early start is a head start
It's a bold vision - 30 centres of excellence for early childhood development in five years: a proposal to herald a lasting change in education, starting with the province's preschoolers. Former...
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Unique insights into South Africa's income dynamics
The National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), implemented at UCT and funded by the Presidency, collects data on the same 28 000 South Africans wherever they move in the country. Individuals are visited...
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Remember Marikana - eruption of a dormant volcano
On 16 August 2012, police gunned down 34 striking miners at Lonmin's mine at Marikana near Rustenburg. While the Farlam Commission continues to debate who is culpable for the massacre, the UCT Marikana...
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Join the dots
When Adrian Frith, database manager for the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) in the Southern Africa Labour Development Research Unit, began making dot maps, he had little idea how much interest...
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Is our freedom shrinking?
"I would propose that for every academic book, they [academics] publish a piece in a mainstream newspaper or magazine, or [give] an interview on radio or television." - Max du Preez in his TB Davie...
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News in pictures
Ties that bind Sisters reconnect after 20 years of separation as a result of the apartheid removals, in Riemvasmaak in the Northern Cape. This image, taken in 1995 by Paul Weinberg - senior curator of...
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Technology bridging divides
Advances in technology have significantly shaped how we connect and share information. They have also enabled new ways of bridging old divides - of geography, culture, language and experience. The...
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Extending reach across Africa
Across Africa is the Faculty of Commerce's strategic initiative, aligned with UCT's Afropolitan vision, to broaden access to higher education across the continent through a blend of online and...
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A word from the dean
Professor Don Ross. Dean of the Faculty of Commerce. This issue of Monday Monthly profiles the Faculty of Commerce at a moment when we're consolidating the outcomes of a few years of new strategic...
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Putting our principles where our mouth is
Laudably, UCT condemns unfair discrimination. The university has a proud history of having spoken out against apartheid, and commits itself, in its mission statement, to redressing past injustices and...
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Is happiness good for you?
Should psychiatry as a profession be working towards creating happiness? This is just one question among many posed by psychiatrist and UCT lecturer Dr Kerry Louw. Do we feel pressure to be happy? Turn...
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On happiness
The idea of happiness - what it is, who has it and how we can get more of it - gets a lot of attention these days. Sadly, almost all the literature on the subject is based on the experience of white,...
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News in pictures
Birds in flight A swift tern snatching the surface of the water to cool down on a very hot day. This photograph by Davide Gaglio, a master's student in the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African...
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Saddle up
In a country where children are becoming increasingly overweight as a result of sedentary lifestyles, cycling is one way to get them to burn up calories while moving from A to B. But are our city's...
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Baby fat
Research shows that the prevalence of obesity is higher among women than men, a red flag for children's health. Obese women are likely to give birth to and raise children who might become obese or...
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Feast your eyes
Nearly 50% of food ads - predominantly for franchised fast food, sweetened drinks and desserts - flight during family viewing times. What are the implications for the food choices and health of young...
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Tipping the scales: SA's kids too fat, too sedentary
South African children don't play enough; they eat too much fast food and they watch too much TV. And it shows: South Africa has slipped to a D in the 2014 Health Active Kids Report Card (HAKSA), down...
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Are we growing a nation of fat kids?
How healthy is South Africa's youngest generation? A range of allied research at UCT - from nutrition and dietetics, to health economics and transport engineering - hones in on the obstacles we're...
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Rarer than rhino and just as prized by poachers
Critically endangered cycads are disappearing from the wild and from botanical gardens, ripped up by the roots to feed the lucrative landscaping market. UCT researchers are using a novel method to help...
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Dr Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk – Senior Lecturer, Centre for Film and Media...
Dr Rijsdijk, who also earned a UCT Distinguished Teachers Award in 2013, is the son of a teaching couple: "I suppose I always feel lucky that I was the son of teachers. My father taught physics and my...
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