The preliminary contest of the 11th Chinese Language Proficiency Competition was held at Boland College in Stellenbosch, on 5th May 2012. UCT students walked away with almost half of the total competition prizes. Read more...

A new book by UCT's Dr Patricia Henderson, titled AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal: A Kinship of Bones, took centre stage at a launch hosted by the Institute for the Humanities in Africa (HUMA) on 7 May, an event that also formed part of UCT's Celebrating Africa Month. Read more...

Expect lots of Facebook updates from six lucky UCT students when they jet off to 'The District', aka Washington, DC, in June this year. This after they were selected to participate in the highly-rated South Africa-Washington International Programme (SAWIP) 2012 for young leaders, forming part of the 15 South African students handpicked for their records of "excellence and service". Read more...

The dragon is a revered Chinese symbol of power, superiority and rule. And the Confucius Institute Spring Festival Gala, hosted by UCT's Confucius Institute to celebrate the year of dragon, was as compelling. Read more...

Today, Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande and concerned scholars from around the country and abroad will gather in Pretoria to discuss the future of the humanities and social sciences in higher education in South Africa. Under the theme The Future of Humanities and Social Sciences in South African Universities, the conference is part of Nzimande's initiatives to rejuvenate and strengthen social sciences and humanities in SA’s Higher Education system. Read more...

Reaching out: At one count, UCT has set up relations - from memoranda of understanding and exchange agreements to publishing collaborations and research contracts - with 36 countries across the continent. Read more...

Curator of Imperfect Librarian Clare Butcher describes the work of Joanne Bloch, which showcases a fragment of Bloch's The People: a thousands-strong personal collection of plastic figurines and objects. Read more...

School of Languages and Literatures Lecturer Wilhelm Snyman has become the latest UCT scholar to receive the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, aka the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.. Read more...

In 2011, the Faculty launched an initiative called wannabe@humanities to identify and support prospective applicants amongst a pool of grade 11 and 12 learners. This year, the dream of becoming UCT students became a reality for nine of these former ‘wannabes’ when they accepted offers to study in the Humanities. Read more...

Billed as the world's greatest love story, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has been setting audience's hearts aflutter in South Africa recently.

During a 15-minute meeting, one thing quickly becomes clear about Raenette Taljaard: she is one industrious person. She thinks fast, talks fast, walks fast, and does just everything else at the same brisk pace. This could explain why she holds so many positions in so many organisations = all with aplomb. Including, since late last year, that of part-time commissioner with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Read more...

December's recipients of honorary doctorates are no strangers to UCT. Mary Burton, though better known for her long association with human-rights organisation the Black Sash, is a familiar face around campus, whether serving on UCT Council or attending or speaking at a university meeting. Read more...

Whether in education or the media, civil society or politics, historian Professor Richard 'Dick' van der Ross has played a crucial role in improving South Africa since he graduated from UCT in 1940. Read more...

It's not often that a humanities student and a science student walk away with prizes from the same conference. But that's exactly what master's students Philile Mbatha and Mayra Pereira did at a Symposium held in Mombasa, Kenya recently. Read more...

Lisle Lourens is in line to become the first person with a hearing impairment to graduate from the Advanced Certificate of Education (ACE) course offered by UCT's Schools Development Unit (SDU). Read more...

Great things happen when you throw a highly diverse group of students into a small language class. Read more...

In a milepost step, UCT's Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) has recruited its first doctoral researchers. Justin Brown, Bianca Camminga, Sarai Chisala and Safiyya Goga have now joined HUMA, which was launched last year with the aim of "fostering interdisciplinary academic research, promoting the next generation of scholars and driving critical public debate". Read more...

Be Gentle a short poem by former vice-chancellor Professor Njabulo S Ndebele, first published in 1971, has been transcribed and mounted in UCT's Postgraduate Centre and Funding Office. Read more...

The ‘best and brightest’ amongst the Faculty of Humanities’ final year students attended the Dean’s Merit List function recently. The annual event is in recognition of consistent academic excellence and serves to promote postgraduate studies amongst a particularly talented pool of students. Read more...