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The University of Cape Town (UCT) (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Kaapstad, Xhosa: iYunivesithi yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa.Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest university in Sub-Saharan Africa in continuous operation.
Rhodes Must Fall was a protest movement that began on 9 March 2015, originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that commemorates Cecil Rhodes. The campaign for the statue's removal received global attention [2] [3] and led to a wider movement to "decolonise" education across South Africa.
Uyinene " Nene " Mrwetyana [1] (20 April 2000 – 24 August 2019) [2] [3] was a South African student at the University of Cape Town. On August 24, 2019, she was raped and murdered in the suburb of Claremont, Cape Town. Her murder highlighted the broader national problem of gender based violence and femicide in South Africa, [4] [5] [6] and is ...
1950. March through the streets of Cape Town by staff and students of UCT in protest against the Universities Bill – 7 June 1957. 1957–1959, June, the ruling National Party embarked on the destruction of academic freedom and the imposition of university apartheid. In June 1957, UCT students and staff marched through the streets of Cape Town ...
The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire [2] or Cape Town fire [3] [4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. The damage to sites in the Table Mountain area ...
Founded. 1942. Headquarters. University of Cape Town. Website. www .varsitynewspaper .co .za. Varsity is the official student newspaper of the University of Cape Town (UCT), printed since 1942. [1]
Apartheid / Civil rights / Activism. Robert F. Kennedy 's Day of Affirmation Address (also known as the "Ripple of Hope" Speech [1]) is a speech given to National Union of South African Students members at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 6, 1966, on the University's "Day of Reaffirmation of Academic and Human Freedom".
Africa Education Medal (2022) [3] Rosina Mamokgethi Phakeng GCOB OIG (née Mmutlana, born 1 November 1966) [4] is a South African [5] professor of mathematics education who in 2018 became a vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT). [6] [7] She has been the vice principal of research and innovation, at the University of South Africa ...