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University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town (UCT) (Afrikaans: Universiteit van
University of Cape Town
Kaapstad, Xhosa: iYunivesithi yaseKapa) is a public research university in
Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, Universiteit van Kaapstad
it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest university iYunivesithi yaseKapa
in South Africa and the oldest university in Sub-Saharan Africa in
continuous operation.[5]
UCT is organised in 57 departments across six faculties offering bachelor's

(NQF 7) to doctoral degrees (NQF 10) solely in the English language.[6]
Home to 30,000 students, it encompasses six campuses in the Capetonian
suburbs of Rondebosch, Hiddingh, Observatory, Mowbray, and the
Waterfront. It is the only African member of the Global University Leaders
Forum (GULF) within the World Economic Forum, which is made up of 26
of the world's top universities.[7] Former names South African
College
Five alumni, staff members, and researchers associated with UCT have
won the Nobel Prize. 88 staff members are part of the Academy of Sciences Motto Latin: Spes Bona
of South Africa.[8] Motto in English "Good Hope"
Type Public
History Established 1 October 1829
Academic AAU
affiliations
Early history ACU
The University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk CHEC
in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The HESA
college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874[9] that IARU
grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in IAU
the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the
WUN
financial boost it needed to grow. The college developed into a fully fledged
university during the period 1880 to 1900, thanks to increased funding Endowment ZAR 11.8 billion[1]
from private sources and the government. (US$ 901
million)[2]
During these years, the college built its first dedicated science laboratories, Chancellor Precious Moloi-
and started the departments of mineralogy and geology to meet the need Motsepe
for skilled personnel in the country's emerging diamond and gold-mining
Vice-Chancellor Daya Reddy
industries. The UCT crest was designed in 1859 by Charles Davidson Bell,
(interim)
Surveyor-General of the Cape Colony at the time. Bell was an accomplished
Academic staff 1,176[3]
artist who also designed medals and the triangular Cape stamp. Another
key development during this period was the admission of women. In 1886 Administrative 3,179
staff
the professor of chemistry, Paul Daniel Hahn, convinced the council to
admit four women into his chemistry class on a trial basis. Owing to the Students 28,233[4]
exceptional standard of work by the women students, the college decided Undergraduates 16,530[4]
to admit women students permanently in honour of Queen Victoria's Postgraduates 11,193[4]
Diamond Jubilee in 1887.
Location Cape Town,
The years 1902 to 1918 saw the establishment of the Medical School, the Western Cape,
introduction of engineering courses and a Department of Education. UCT South Africa
was formally established as a university in 1918,[9] on the basis of the 33°57′27″S
Alfred Beit bequest and additional substantial gifts from mining magnates 18°27′38″E
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Julius Wernher and Otto Beit. The new university also attracted Campus 4 suburban and 2
substantial support from well-wishers in the Cape Town area and, for the urban campuses
first time, a significant state grant. Colours
Light blue, dark
In 1928, the university was able to move the bulk of its facilities to Groote
blue, black, white
Schuur on the slopes of Devil's Peak, on land bequeathed to the nation by
Cecil John Rhodes as the site for a national university. UCT celebrated its Nickname Ikeys
centenary the following year. Mascot Ikey Tiger
Website uct.ac.za (http://w
Apartheid era ww.uct.ac.za)
Apart from establishing itself as a leading research and teaching university

in the decades that followed, UCT earned itself the nickname "Moscow on
the Hill" during the period 1960 to 1990 for its sustained opposition to
apartheid, particularly in higher education.[5]
The university admitted its first small group of black students in the 1920s.
The number of black students remained relatively low until the 1980s and
90s, when the institution, reading and welcoming the signs of change in the
country, committed itself to a deliberate and planned process of internal
transformation. From the 1980s to the early 1990s, the number of black View from the east of the Upper
students admitted to the university rose by 35 percent. By 2004, nearly half Campus at Groote Schuur on the
of UCT's 20,000 students were black and just under half of the student body slopes of Devil's Peak; the university
was female. Today the university boasts having one of the most diverse moved here in 1928.
campuses in South Africa.[10]
Post-Apartheid era
Rhodes Must Fall (#RhodesMustFall on social media) 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[11][12] and led to a wider movement to "decolonise"
education across South Africa.[12][13] On 9 April 2015, following a UCT Council vote the previous night, the
statue was removed.
#FeesMustFall was a student protest movement[14] which was arguably indirectly inspired by the
RhodesMustFall. It formally began at the University of the Witwatersrand and spread to UCT and Rhodes
University and then the rest of the South African universities. It called for the abolition of tuition fee increases
for the 2016 academic year. Diverse demands arose such as the abolition of fees and decolonisation of higher
education which led to substantial changes at South African public universities.[15] At UCT, the Senate began a
widespread curriculum reform process and the university began the process of the renaming of buildings on
campus (the most notable example was when Jameson Hall was renamed to Sarah Baartman Hall in 2019).
In September 2019, Film and Media studies student Uyinene Mrwetyana went missing. After the community and
police began searching, her body was discovered in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town and Luyanda Botha was
arrested and convicted for her rape and murder.[16] Her death and the rape and death of other women
precipitated widespread public outcry that led to a campus shutdown[17] and protests on campus, at the
Parliament precinct in Cape Town CBD and at campuses around South Africa. Subsequently, President
Ramaphosa announced[18] reforms such as harsher punishments for sex offenders and the public disclosure of
the National Register for Sex Offenders to stem sexual and physical violence against women and children.[19]
Moreover, the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation was established and a special fund in her name was created to
provide scholarships to female students in the Humanities Faculty.[20]
In March 2020, UCT opened the Neuroscience Institute at the Groote Schuur Hospital in collaboration with the
Western Cape Provincial Government, the first dedicated cross- and interdisciplinary centre for the study of and
development of treatments for neurological and mental disorders in Africa.[21]
Campus
The main teaching campus, known as Upper Campus, is located on the
Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's Peak. This campus contains, in a
relatively compact site, the faculties of Science, Engineering, Commerce, and
Humanities (except for the arts departments), as well as Smuts Hall and
Fuller Hall residences. Upper Campus is centered on Sarah Baartman Hall,
the location for graduation and other ceremonial events, as well as many
examinations. The original buildings and layout of Upper Campus were
designed by JM Solomon and built between 1928 and 1930. Since that time,
many more buildings have been added as the university has grown. Upper Sarah Baartman Hall and Memorial
Campus is also home to the main library, The Chancellor Oppenheimer Plaza, the focal point Upper
Library, which holds the majority of the university's 1.3 million volume Campus.
collection.
Contiguous with Upper Campus, but separated from it by university sports fields
and the M3 expressway, are the Middle and Lower Campuses. These campuses,
which are spread through the suburbs of Rondebosch, Rosebank and Mowbray,
contain the Law faculty, the South African College of Music, the School of
Economics, most of the student residences, most of the university administrative
offices, and various sporting facilities. The state of the art artificial grass soccer field
has been approved by FIFA for training for World Cup teams.[22] The Upper, Middle
and Lower Campuses together are often referred to as the "main campus".
The Faculty of Health Sciences is located on the Medical School campus next to the
Groote Schuur Hospital in Observatory. The Fine Arts and Drama departments are
located on the Hiddingh Campus in central Cape Town. The university's original Hiddingh Hall Library on
building, now known as the Egyptian Building, on the Hiddingh campus, was built Hiddingh Campus in
in the Egyptian Revival style. The only other campus built in this style was the Gardens, Cape Town.
Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia in the United States. The UCT
Graduate School of Business is located on the Breakwater Lodge Campus at the
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.
The Baxter Theatre Centre, located on the Lower Campus, is part of the University of Cape Town; it is also the
second largest performing arts complex in Cape Town, after the Artscape Theatre Centre. It has three venues:
the 665-seat Main Theatre

the 638-seat Concert Hall, with a Von Beckerath organ
the 172-seat Golden Arrow Studio
For his contribution of the tract of land which the campus was founded on, a bronze statue of Cecil Rhodes was
erected in 1934 on the Upper Campus, overlooking the university's rugby fields. The statue was removed in April
2015 following pressure from student groups due to its representation of South Africa's colonialist apartheid past
and the university's inadequate representation of black students, faculty, and staff.
The upper campus was affected by the Table Mountain fire in April 2021; the Jagger Library building, which
housed rare books and documents including a large African Studies collection, was gutted.[23]
Upper Campus seen from the rugby fields that separate it from Middle Campus, with Devil's Peak in the background
Residential halls
The university has 19 student residences (or "res" as known colloquially), offering both single-gender and mixed-
gender housing. The Department of Student Housing oversees the residence system College House is the oldest
university residence in Africa, having been established in 1887. UCT's residence system is composed of three
tiers. Students living in residence are placed in a tier according to the length of time that they have been in the
residence system, studying in the university and service or part-time employment in a residence. As a student
progresses through their academic journey they are moved into a higher tier. Postgraduate students are usually
housed in the third-tier residences unless employed in lower-tier residences.
First-tier residences:[24]
Avenue Road Residence

Baxter Hall
Clarinus Village
College House
Dullah Omar Hall
Fuller Hall
Glendover Residence
Graça Machel Hall
Kilindini
Kopano Residence
Leo Marquard Hall
Rochester House
Smuts Hall
Tugwell Hall
University House
Varietas
Second-tier residences:[25]
Forest Hill
Groote Schuur Flats
Groote Schuur Residence
Liesbeeck Gardens
Medical Residence
Obz Square
The Woolsack
Third-tier residences:[26]
1 Woodbine Road
8 Avenue Road
Amalinda
Dullah Omar Hall
Edwin Hart Annex

F Block (Forest Hill)
Harold Cressy Hall
Inglewood
JP Duminy Court
Linkoping
North Grange
Rondeberg
TB Davie Court
Smuts Hall, built in Tugwell Hall, built in

1928 on the Upper 1974 on the Lower
Campus Campus
Organisation
Administration and governance

The University of Cape Town was originally incorporated as a public university by a
private act of Parliament in 1918. At present it is incorporated and structured by an
institutional statute issued under the provisions of the Higher Education Act, 1997.
The titular head of the university is the chancellor; this is a ceremonial position without
executive power. The primary role of the chancellor is to confer degrees on behalf of the
university, and to represent the university to the rest of the world.[27] The current
Chancellor is fashion entrepreneur and philanthropist Precious Moloi-Motsepe who
was elected in November 2019 and assumed the role on 1 January 2020[28] after the
expiration of Ms Graça Machel's second consecutive 10-year term.
The University Council is the highest ranked decision-making and appointative

Mamokgethi Phakeng
structure in the university.[29] With wide-ranging powers of governance over areas became the university's
such as the strategy, well-being and mission of the university, it is directly accountable second Black female
to the Government of the Republic through the Minister of Higher Education, currently Vice-Chancellor after
Blade Nzimande for matters relating to the university.[29] It is composed of 30 broad Mamphela Ramphele.
stakeholder representatives such as students, academics, staff and appointees of the
City of Cape Town, Convocation, Premier of the Western Cape and the Minister of
Higher Education among others, and the presiding officer of the council, the chair, is currently Mr Norman
Arendse (SC).[30] The Registrar, who acts as the secretary of the Council and Senate, oversees academic
registration and legal matters, and administers the Convocation, is currently Royston Pillay.[31]
The Convocation, composed of alumni, the Vice Chancellor, Deputy Vice Chancellors, academic staff, emeritus
professors and emeritus associate professors, is a statutory body administered by the Office of the Registrar,
which provides a platform for former members of the university to participate and engage with matters affecting
the university.[32] Helmed by the President of the Convocation, currently Mr Kassi Carl Manlan,[33] it can make
recommendations and pass non-binding resolutions in its Annual General Meetings.[32]
The Leadership Lekgotla is a coordinating and decision-making structure composed of senior executives of the
university who oversee the day-to-day running of the university.[34] It contrasts with the University Council
which arises from the University Statute and exercises supreme governance over the university. The Leadership
Lekgotla's members are senior executives who oversee different areas of the university's operations and
policies.[34] The most senior executive is the Vice Chancellor (ranked below the Chancellor in the ceremonial
protocol and order of precedence of the university) is the de facto head and chief executive of the university,[35]
(currently held in an acting capacity since Mamokgethi Phakeng's term was ended on 3 March 2023),[36] who is
accountable to the council. Below the Vice Chancellor are the Deputy Vice Chancellors[37] of Transformation
(currently Professor Elelwani Ramugondo[38]), of Research and Internationalisation (currently Susanne
Harris[39]) and of Teaching and Learning (currently Professor Harsha Kathard, acting[40]). The Chief Operations
Officer, currently Reno Morar,[41] brings together and oversees the functional, support and technical areas of the
university's operations.[42]
University Chancellors & Vice-Chancellors
Chancellor Vice-Chancellor
Term Name Term Name

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (the future
1918–1936 1918–1938 Sir John Carruthers Beattie
Edward VIII)
1936–1950 Field Marshal Jan Smuts 1938–1947 AW Falconer
1948–1955 TB Davie
The Hon. Mr Justice Albert van der Sandt
1950–1967 1956–1957 RW James, in an acting capacity
Centlivres
1958–1967 Jacobus Duminy
1968–1980 Sir Richard Luyt
1967–1999 Harry Oppenheimer 1981–1996 Stuart J Saunders
1996–2000 Mamphela Ramphele

2000–2008 Njabulo Ndebele
1999–2019 Graça Machel
2008–2018 Max Price
2018–2023 Mamokgethi Phakeng

2019–present Precious Moloi-Motsepe 2023–2024 Daya Reddy, interim
2024- Mosa Moshabela, elect
Academic divisions
The university is composed of six Faculties (Commerce, Engineering and the Built Environment, Health
Sciences, Law, Sciences and Humanities) which together comprise 57 departments.[43] Faculties are helmed by a
Dean[44] and their administrative and operational matters are administered by a Director. The Senate has
delegated substantial powers to the faculties in academic matters over their internal protocol and management
such as on matters concerning class timetables, admission requirements, academic exclusion, examinations,
research projects and so on. Faculties vary substantially in student size and in buildings occupied, with the
Commerce faculty having the highest student population and the law faculty having the lowest while the
Humanities faculty spans the most buildings followed by the Faculty of Health Sciences with the Commerce and
Law faculties having (by far) the lowest physical footprint.[45]
Notwithstanding interdisciplinary research units and centers, additional academic structures exist that eschew
the faculty-based organisational structure. The multidisciplinary Center for Higher Education Development
ranks on an equal level as the faculties and the UCT Graduate School of Business maintains substantial latitude
over its internal affairs despite being nominally part of the Faculty of Commerce. The interdisciplinary School of
Information Technology, comprising the Departments of Information Systems and of Computer Science in the
Commerce and Science faculties is neither a faculty nor a department but a coordinating mechanism to promote
IT education and research.[46]
The departments of the faculties are listed as follows:
Faculty of Commerce[47]
College of Accounting
School of Economics (jointly established with Faculty of Humanities)
Department of Finance and Tax
Department of Information Systems
The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance
School of Management Studies
Education Development Unit
Graduate School of Business
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment[48]
Department of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics

Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Construction Economics and Management
Department of Electrical Engineering Entrance to the Bolus Herbarium
Department of Mechanical Engineering Library in the Department of Botany
building.
Faculty of Health Sciences[49]
Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Department of Health Sciences Education
Department of Human Biology
Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences
Department of Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
Department of Pathology
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
Department of Radiation Medicine
Department of Surgery
Faculty of Humanities[50]
African Feminist Studies

Anthropology
African Studies and Linguistics
Centre for Film and Media Studies
Education Development Unit
English Literary Studies
Historical Studies The South African College of Music
Knowledge and Information Stewardship building, established in 1910.
Michaelis School of Fine Art
Department of Philosophy
Department of Political Studies
School of Education
Department of Psychology
School of Languages and Literatures
Department of Social Work & Social Development
Department of Sociology
South African College of Music
Department for the Study of Religions
Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
Faculty of Law[51]
Department of Commercial Law

Department of Private Law
Department of Public Law
Faculty of Science[52]
Department of Archaeology
The Kramer Building, home of the
Department of Astronomy
smallest faculty, the Law Faculty.
Department of Biological Sciences The Student Administration building
Department of Chemistry stands to the north (left, in this
Department of Computer Science photo) of the Kramer building, and
Department of Environmental and Geographical Science to the north east stands the School
of Economics building, both of which
Department of Geological Sciences
were built in 2011.
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Department of Oceanography
Department of Physics
Department of Statistical Sciences
Funding
The university's endowment (the financial capital and investment funds on
which it can draw to carry out its work)[53] is deposited with the UCT
Foundation (a legally independent nonprofit organisation) and it is managed
by the Investment Office.[54] Through the Distinguishing UCT fundraising
campaign, the university is trying to raise its endowment. As of 2019, its
designated endowment stands at R2.5 billion and its undesignated
endowment stands at R676 million with R133 million raised for
infrastructure projects (bringing the total undesignated endowment to R809
The central section of the
million which the university aims to increase to R1 billion).[54] Chancellor Oppenheimer Library.
There have been several campaigns at the university to divest its endowment.
Fossil Free UCT was formally established in 2015 as a campaign by environmental activism lobbying groups and
student organisations, most notably the Green Campus Initiative compel UCT to divest from fossil fuel
companies which resulted in a non-binding resolution passed by UCT's Convocation in 2017 to support the
divestment.[55] Student lobby groups, most notably the Palestinian Solidarity Front and the SRC called on the
university's management to divest from Israeli companies and organisations working in the Palestinian
Occupied Territories (among other demands), which, in the end, the university refused to do.[56]
The university's income comes from a combination of government grants, tuition fees, donations, investment
and research income. In the 2017–2018 financial year, the university received R1.415 billion in state subsidies,
R1.428 billion in tuition fees and R539 million in other income. R1.2 billion was committed to student financial
aid for both undergraduate and postgraduate students from the university, the government through the NSFAS
scheme and the university's partners and donors.[45]
Students and staff

As of 2018, there were 27,907 students; 25% of whom were black South African, 22% were white South African,
18% identified as another race, 15% were international students.[57] In 2016 there were 29,074 students enrolled
(18,421 undergraduates and 10,653 postgraduates) and 4,542 staff were employed (1,179 academic and 3,363
professional, administrative, support and service staff).[58]
The UCT Employment Equity Plan April (2010 to 2015) indicated moderate but consistent changes in the
demographic makeup of the staff body. The five-year plan specified specific targets ranging from between about
5% to 10% adjustments in the representation of SA black staff. According to the plan the staff makeup would
have changed by 2015 by achieving either parity or more SA black staff than SA white in all categories other than
senior lecturer and professor positions.[59]
UCT spokesperson Elijah Moholola noted that, in 2017, UCT employed 45 white professors, 38 black African,
Cape Coloured or Indian South African professors, 67 foreign national professors and 7 who did not disclose
their race.[60]
Student enrolment 2009–2013

Student enrolment by population group 2009–2013, showing percentage growth on base:[61][62]
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 % Growth % Of Total
SA Black 5068 5323 5744 6012 6199 6813 28.67% 25.23%

SA coloured 3623 3653 3687 3530 3573 3601 0.73% 13.34%
SA Indian 1630 1681 1671 1701 1714 1813 11.6% 6.72%
SA White 8984 9183 8992 8814 8434 8093 -10.69% 30%

International 3821 4171 4268 4802 4708 4674 19.57% 17.32%
Other 886 1003 1146 1191 1488 1993 73.28% 7.39%
Total 24012 25014 25508 26505 26116 26987 -0.32% 100%
Demographic of University Student Enrollments in 2021
Program Asian Black Coloured Indian White International (Rest of Africa) Undeclared
Undergraduate 0.50% 32% 12% 5% 14% 7% 30%
Postgraduate 0.50% 25% 12% 5% 14% 18% 20%

PhD 0.50% 21% 9% 6% 20% 35% 8.9%
Student life
UCT had 36 different sports clubs in 2003, including team sports, individual sports, extreme sports and martial
arts.[63]
The university's sports teams, in particular the rugby union team, are known as the "Ikey Tigers" or the "Ikeys".
The "Ikey" nickname originated in the 1910s as an antisemitic epithet applied to UCT students by the students of
Stellenbosch University, because of the supposed large number of Jewish students at UCT.[64] Stellenbosch is
UCT's traditional rugby opponent; an annual "Intervarsity" match is played between the two universities.[65] The
University of Cape Town Football Club also known as the "Ikeys Warriors" is the main team for association
football (soccer), representing the university at tournaments such as Varsity Football.
As of 2007 there were more than 80 student societies at UCT, falling into five
categories:[66]
Academic societies for those interested in a particular field of study or studying a

particular topic: The most prominent of these include the History and Current
Affairs Society (HCA), the Space and Astronomy Society (SpaceSoc, also a
SEDS South Africa chapter), the United Nations Association of South Africa
(UNASA), and the Students for Law and Social Justice (SLSJ).
Political societies, including branches of the youth wings of national political
parties such as the South African Students Congress (SASCO), the Democratic
Alliance Students Organisation (DASO), and the African National Congress
Youth League.
Religious societies, some of which are associated with religious denominations
North end of University
or local places of worship.
Avenue looking south, on
National/cultural societies for students from particular countries or particular
Upper Campus
ethnic backgrounds.
Special interest societies (such as RainbowUCT, the university's LGBTI society, UCT Mountain & Ski Club,
UCT Ballroom and Latin dancing) for those interested in various activities or issues.
In addition to the plethora of student societies, there are several student organisations dedicated to the
development of communities surrounding the university in the Cape Metropolitan Area. Some of the biggest
include: SHAWCO, Ubunye and RAG.[67] Recently, several students movements have developed, such as the
Green Campus Initiative.
Rankings
The university received a rank of 198 in the 2019 QS World University
University rankings
Rankings,[78] a rank of 156 in the 2019 Times Higher Education World
Global – Overall
University Rankings,[79] and a rank of 201–300 in the Shanghai Academic
Ranking of World Universities.[68] ARWU World[68] 201-300
(2023)
The faculty of Commerce as well as the faculty of Law and Medicine have CWUR World[69] 267 (2023)
appeared in the top 100 faculties internationally. The law faculty achieved a [70]
CWTS World 429 (2023)
global rank of 40 in the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject.[78]
Although the university remains the highest ranking in Africa as of 2022 its QS World[71] =173
ranking has been declining since 2015.[80] (2024)
THE World[72] 167 (2024)
UCT Times Higher Education Ranking 2011 to 2024 [73]
USNWR Global =125
Year World Rank (2022-23)
2024 167 Regional – Overall
2023 160 QS BRICS[74] 22 (2019)
2022 183 THE Africa[75] 1 (2023)
[76]
2021 155 THE BRICS 10 (2020)
2020 136 USNWR Africa[77] 1 (2021)
2019 136
2018 171
2017 148
2016 120
2015 124
2014 126
University of Cape Town World
2013 126
Ranking
2012 103
2011 107
[81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94]
QS World University Rankings[95] Times Higher Education World University Rankings[96]
Affiliations
UCT is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), the Association of African Universities, the
Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Cape Higher Education Consortium, Higher Education South
Africa, the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), the African Research Universities Alliance
(ARUA) and the International Association of Universities.
The Faculty of Law is a member of the Law Schools Global League (LSGL).
Notable alumni and staff
Five alumni of the University of Cape Town have been awarded

Nobel Prizes: Ralph Bunche, American political scientist and
diplomat awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his role in the
1949 Armistice Agreements, Professor Allan McLeod Cormack,
physicist awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1979) for his work
on X-ray computed tomography, Max Theiler, virologist awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a Christiaan Nobel Prize Former UCT
vaccine against yellow fever, Sir Aaron Klug, chemist and Barnard who for Literature Vice-Chancellor
biophysicist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1982) for his performed laureate, J. and Managing
development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his the first M. Coetzee Director of World
structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid- human heart Bank, Mamphela
protein complexes and Professor Emeritus J. M. Coetzee transplant Ramphele
was an
(Literature, 2003).[97]
alumnus and
faculty
UCT alumni have gone on to achieve positions in academica,
politics and other fields as follows. According to a non-peer
reviewed study conducted by the Mail & Guardian in 2018, 6% of members of the Parliament of South Africa
obtained a degree from UCT (the study had a sample of 247 out of 449 MPs).[98] Ministers of the Cabinet of
South Africa, Naledi Pandor and Ebrahim Patel, former Vice President of the World Bank and former Vice
Chancellor of UCT, Mamphela Ramphele, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard,[99] South African writer
Breyten Breytenbach,[100] South African entrepreneur and inventor behind Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, South
African activist and judge Albie Sachs,[101] former member of the South African music band Freshlyground,
Zolani Mahola,[102] South African cartoonist Zapiro[103] and former Speaker of the National Assembly of South
Africa, Baleka Mbete[104] are among the alumni of the university. Kindly refer to List of Notable Alumni of the
University of Cape Town for further information on notable UCT alumni.
The National Research Foundation of South Africa rates researchers and academics according to the quality of
their research output in four categories. As of 2019, 35 staff are A-rated, that being they are internationally
recognised leaders in their fields.[105] These are 30% of the A-rated researchers recognised by the NRF, making
UCT, by far, the university with the highest number of such researchers.[45] 6 researchers are recognised as P-
rated, that being they have potential to become leaders in their fields.[106] As of 2019, 15% of South Africa's total
NRF-rated researchers (about 524) are employed or associated with UCT.[45] For a comprehensive and up-to-
date list of B, Y and C-rated researchers, see this site (https://www.uct.ac.za/main/research/leading-researcher
s/b-c-y-rated).
As of 2019, 19% of South African Research Chairs (about 42 academics) are held by UCT employed or associated
researchers.[45] 88 members of faculty are members of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa. Notable staff
members include Minister of Trade and Industry, Ebrahim Patel, Minister of International Relations and
Cooperation, Naledi Pandor,[107] former Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille and George Ellis, collaborator
with Stephen Hawking and winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize, was a professor of applied mathematics in the
Faculty of Sciences. For a larger albeit inexhaustive list of former and current notable UCT faculty and staff, see
the List of University of Cape Town faculty.
Notable research
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics is an international centre for research in the fields
of cosmology and topology.
The Centre for Rhetoric Studies, the only one of its kind on the African Continent (director: Philippe-Joseph
Salazar).
The Department of Physics is home to the UCT-CERN research centre, which is partially responsible for the
software design of the High Level Trigger component of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider,
as well as other activities related to ALICE.
The Department of Electrical Engineering is involved in the development of technology for the Karoo Array
Telescope (KAT). KAT is a precursor to the Square Kilometer Array, a proposed International project to build
the world's largest radio telescope by 2020. Research groups in RF design and digital design contribute to
the RF front-end and digital back-end of the KAT project.
The Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM)[108]

is engaged in research on candidate tuberculosis vaccines, and is
developing candidate HIV vaccines matched to the South African
epidemic.
The OpenUCT Initiative[109] is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and works to make UCT's research, teaching and learning
materials openly available online. Major research projects include the
African Climate Development Initiative (https://web.archive.org/web/2013 Tuberculosis researchers working in
1112115301/http://openuct.uct.ac.za/activities/acdi-pilot-project-content-c a Bio-safety Level 3 Lab at the
uration) (ACDI) pilot curation project, Digital Scholarship in Emerging University of Cape Town. The
Knowledge Domains (https://web.archive.org/web/20131112120841/htt Institute of Infectious Disease is
p://openuct.uct.ac.za/activities/digital_scholarship_emerging_knowledge_ noted for its work on this disease.
domains) and Open Data in the Governance of South African Higher
Education (https://web.archive.org/web/20131112115326/http://openuct.u
ct.ac.za/activities/open_data_south_africa_higher_education) and Scholarly Communication in Africa (http://o
penuct.uct.ac.za/activities/scholarly-communication-africa-programme) (SCAP)
The Department of Archaeology has found some of the oldest evidence of art and abstract thought in the
world. Specifically, engrained ostrich eggshell water containers dated to 60,000 years ago[110]
The African Centre for Cities is one of the few research organisations focusing on urbanism in Africa.[111]
On 21 September 2020 the new Khoi and San Centre was launched, with an undergraduate degree
programme planned to be rolled out in coming years. The centre will support and consolidate this
collaborative work on research commissions on language (including Khoekhoegowab), sacred human
remains, land and gender.[112]
Controversies
The "Mafeje Affair"

University of Cape Town Council's decision to rescind Archie Mafeje's (black)
offer for a senior lecturer position due to pressure from the Apartheid
government angered students and led to protests on 15 August 1968 followed
by a nine days sit-in at UCT administration building. Protesters faced
intimidation from the government, anti-protestors and fellow Afrikaans
students from other universities. The police swiftly squashed support for the
sit-in. In the aftermath, Mafeje left the country and did not return until
2000.[113]
UCT's students surrounding
Jameson hall (today Sarah
Rhodes Must Fall Baartman Hall) on 15 August 1968
A debate at UCT over the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes spawned

Rhodes Must Fall movement. The FeesMustFall movement, which began at Wits and spread to UCT, was
inspired by the Rhodes Must Fall protests.
Destruction and censorship of art

Since the removal of the Rhodes statue, other art has been removed or destroyed. FeesMustFall students burned
23 of the university's historical paintings in February 2016.[114]
According to GroundUp, art experts connected to the university are concerned about intolerance towards art at
the institution, as UCT has removed and censored 75 further "vulnerable" art which it claims are offensive to
students.[115][116]
An Artworks Task Team was set up in September 2015 to assess art at the university "with a view to
transformation and inclusivity",[116] and went about finding "artworks on campus that may be seen to recognize
or celebrate colonial oppressors and/or which may be offensive or controversial", and specifically artworks
deemed to be "offensive" in their depiction of black people. Both Stanley Pinker's Decline and Fall, which makes
ironic use of colonial iconology, and Breyten Breytenbach's Hovering Dog, which shows a black person wearing
a white mask and a white person wearing a black mask, were removed;[115] and Diane Victor's Pasiphaë, which
depicts black farmers with allusions to Greek mythology, was covered by a wooden panel.[117] In response,
Breyten Breytenbach remarked that UCT were making fools of themselves,[118] while Diane Victor thought UCT's
actions were "slightly comical" and her artwork was being understood on a "simplistic level".[119]
Jacques Rousseau, then chair of the Academic Freedom Committee, told GroundUp: "There are a number of
artworks in UCT's collection that could legitimately be regarded as problematic. Even so, any piece of art is
potentially offensive to someone, and the very point of art is to provoke reflection and sometimes discomfort."
The Academic Freedom Committee noted with "grave concern recent instances of threats to academic
freedom".[115]
The South African Human Rights Commission was investigating the matter as of May 2017, in order to
determine whether the university was infringing on the constitutional right to freedom of expression, in
particular the right to artistic creativity.[116]
Popular culture
The university was the shooting location of the 2019 film Critters Attack! where it was called Leroy College and
the 2008 film Disgrace.
The university was the shooting location of Netflix movies The Kissing Booth and The Kissing Booth 2 and the
2020 Netflix series Blood & Water.[120] The Upper Campus residence served as the grounds and building for the
show's fictional Parkhurst College.
Gallery
Memorial Plaza on Upper The Oracle Fountain next to

Campus viewed from the the Department of
columns of the Sarah Mathematics Building;
Baartman Hall inspired by the I Ching
trigrams on the Taoist sun Fuller Hall, a student
disc residence on Upper Campus
built in 1928
The rugby fields that The M3 highway that

separate the Upper Campus separates the Upper Campus
and Middle Campus and Middle Campus; a tunnel
beneath the highway The Japonica Walk, a
connects the two campuses. footpath connecting the
Upper, Middle and Lower
Campuses; it is lined with
various flora, including
japonica flowers and oak
trees.
The Summer House Pavilion, The Woolsack Building; it

The Japonica Walk, looking built c. 1760, is one of the was a refuge for writers and
towards the Summer House oldest buildings in South artists, and also where
Pavilion Africa. Rudyard Kipling spent his
summers between 1900 and
1908.
The famous steps on Upper The Jagger Library, housing View from the Chancellor
Campus leading up to the rare books and special Oppenheimer Library
Sarah Baartman Hall, collections
nicknamed the "Jammie
steps"
Student Housing and

Residence Life Building
Entrance to the FitzPatrick The Breakwater Lodge,

Institute of African which houses the UCT
Ornithology Graduate School of Business
A lecture theatre in the Leslie

Social Science Building
(Faculty of Humanities)
See also
Centre for Curating the Archive
List of universities in South Africa
Education in South Africa

Chancellor of the University of Cape Town
Open access in South Africa and List of South African open access repositories
List of demonstrations at the University of Cape Town
University of Pretoria
University of Port Elizabeth ‎
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UCT is organised in 57 departments across six faculties offering bachelor's

Apart from establishing itself as a leading research and teaching university

the 665-seat Main Theatre

Avenue Road Residence

Edwin Hart Annex

Smuts Hall, built in Tugwell Hall, built in

Administration and governance

The University Council is the highest ranked decision-making and appointative

University Chancellors & Vice-Chancellors

Term Name Term Name

1936–1950 Field Marshal Jan Smuts 1938–1947 AW Falconer

1967–1999 Harry Oppenheimer 1981–1996 Stuart J Saunders

1996–2000 Mamphela Ramphele

2018–2023 Mamokgethi Phakeng

2024- Mosa Moshabela, elect

The departments of the faculties are listed as follows:

Department of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics

Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

African Feminist Studies

Department of Commercial Law

Students and staff

Student enrolment 2009–2013

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 % Growth % Of Total

SA Black 5068 5323 5744 6012 6199 6813 28.67% 25.23%

SA Indian 1630 1681 1671 1701 1714 1813 11.6% 6.72%

SA White 8984 9183 8992 8814 8434 8093 -10.69% 30%

Other 886 1003 1146 1191 1488 1993 73.28% 7.39%

Total 24012 25014 25508 26505 26116 26987 -0.32% 100%

Demographic of University Student Enrollments in 2021

Postgraduate 0.50% 25% 12% 5% 14% 18% 20%

Academic societies for those interested in a particular field of study or studying a

QS World University Rankings[95] Times Higher Education World University Rankings[96]

Notable alumni and staff

Five alumni of the University of Cape Town have been awarded

The Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM)[108]

The "Mafeje Affair"

A debate at UCT over the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes spawned

Destruction and censorship of art

Memorial Plaza on Upper The Oracle Fountain next to

The rugby fields that The M3 highway that

The Summer House Pavilion, The Woolsack Building; it

Student Housing and

Entrance to the FitzPatrick The Breakwater Lodge,

A lecture theatre in the Leslie

Education in South Africa

29. Benjamin, Dee (28 February 2020). "Council" (https://www.uct.ac.za/main/about/governance/council/).

50. "Humanities" (https://www.news.uct.ac.za/images/userfiles/files/publications/factsheets/UCT_FactSheet_11_

67. "Student Community Service: SHAWCO" (https://web.archive.org/web/20100129183309/http://www.uct.ac.z

87. "World University Rankings 2018 (South Africa)" (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-ran

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