Open Society Foundations president and activist Binaifer Nowrojee delivered a timely special lecture hosted by the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance titled The State of the World: Defending Open Society in a Dangerous World.

After being named the top financial technology start-up at UCT's Financial Innovation Hub Hackathon in 2023, Tata-iMali has enjoyed a purple patch, including being the sole South African start-up at the START Global Accelerator 2025.

UCT has officially joined DataCite, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to providing persistent digital object identifiers (DOIs) for research data.

The UCT Liberty Institute of Strategic Marketing’s The Majority Report 2025 places SA's working class in the context of its expansion (from 9 million to 15 million - 67%) and great spending power.