In the Media

This conference will be hosted from 2-4 April in the Kramer Law Building on UCT middle campus and reflect on South Africa's journey since the establishment of democracy, 30 years ago.

We are simultaneously experiencing a shift in global power, the growing strength of artificial intelligence, and climate shocks.

On 13 March, Malcolm Keswell was interviewed by Lester Kiewet on the Good Morning Cape Town show on Cape Talk. During the interview, Lester and Malcolm spoke about some key findings from the Land Restitution Evaluation Study.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the potential to act as a facilitator in achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in Africa.

In this article for The Conversation, Joshua Budlender and Ihsaan Bassier explain how they evaluated the economic stimulus effects of the BEEI, resulting from the spending of participants of the programme, and some of the findings.

Fabio Diaz was interviewed as part of the Five Continents (Cinco continentes) radio show of RTVE (Spanish public broadcasting radio) in December.

In this piece for The Conversation UK, Fabio Diaz, together with María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña from Universiteit Leiden, look at the contradictions of securitisation policies...

By supporting social mobility, higher education can help economies become more socially inclusive. However, South Africa’s generous financial aid scheme for higher education could risk constraining the sector’s potential.

UCT News recently spoke to Nicola Branson and Emma Whitelaw about their project “The COVID-19 health crisis and inequalities in tertiary education in South Africa”, its findings, and what they mean for higher education in South Africa.