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Imported gunshot detection systems can marginalise communities

A research paper revealed that when technologies like ShotSpotter travel from the Global North to Global South countries they arrive not simply as tools, but as governance scripts that shape how problems are understood.
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Prof Edward Kieswetter credited deliberate strategy and disciplined execution for the turnaround of SARS during his tenure.

Kieswetter makes a case for institutional integrity as an economic driver

Former SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter delivered a Faculty of Commerce Open Lecture on how our fiscal stability, social spending and even the withdrawal of proposed VAT hikes were the result of rebuilding institutional integrity.
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Muhammed Coker has been awarded a McCall MacBain Scholarship, transforming his work from local impact to the global stage.

UCT postgraduate secures prestigious global leadership scholarship

Congratulations to Muhammed Coker, who recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Management in Entrepreneurship as a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, for being awarded a US$40 000 McCall MacBain Scholarship after being selected as a finalist.
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South Africa commemorates Workers’ Day on 1 May. Photo iStock.

Workers’ Day in a jobless economy

There is not just a crisis of unemployment. There is a crisis of how we define work itself, according to UCT alumnus Usiphile Mpetsheni.
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Public trust takes centre stage as South Africans celebrate Freedom Day on 27 April.

Freedom Day: public trust tested

30 Apr 2026
A public sector expert reflects on 30 years of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. PhotoiStock.

The authority of the Constitution

30 Apr 2026
Approximately 60% of cigarettes sold in South Africa in 2021 were illegal.

South Africa’s illicit cigarette trade is booming

17 Apr 2026
UCT is celebrating its 2026 IAC results.

IAC results lauded

17 Apr 2026
Team members Kelly O’Sullivan (left) and Cindy McKenzie. Regrettably, Charnè Verster was unable to attend graduation. Photo Carbon Visuals.

Innovative, expandable: Smart School Shoes

13 Apr 2026
Minister Stella Ndabeni with VC Prof Mosa Moshabela. Photo Ethan Joshua.

‘Take interest in development of law’

01 Apr 2026
Moeletsi Tladi. Photo Lerato Maduna.

‘Nothing should get in your way’

27 Mar 2026
Emeritus Professor Murray Leibbrandt

UCT researcher awarded esteemed IEA fellowship

25 Mar 2026
Meeting with academics at a UCT-hosted thinktank, the UN director general of the International IOM, Amy Pope (front centre), highlighted the importance of evidence-based migration reform.

Calls for SA to enter global migration debate

18 Mar 2026
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