Hundreds of staff and students, including VC Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, packed the Sarah Baartman Hall on 2 August to say #JustNO to gender-based violence.
UCT is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
The vice-chancellors of all 26 public universities are calling for an urgent meeting with the President of South Africa, to register their anger at the scourge of gender-based violence in the country and to push for a plan of action to respond decisively to this crisis. Read more.5 September 2019
UCT is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
2018–2019 World University Rankings
1st IN AFRICA
156 Times Higher Education
200 Quacquarelli Symonds
“There is no choral and no orchestral writing, earlier or later, that shows a more thrilling sense of the individual of every chord, every position, and every doubled third or discord,” said Sir Donald Tovey, describing Missa Solemnis, considered one of Beethoven’s supreme achievements.
Beethoven’s most thrilling composition to be performed at UCT
“There is no choral and no orchestral writing, earlier or later, that shows a more thrilling sense of the individual colour of every chord, every position, and every doubled third or discord,” said Sir Donald Tovey, describing Missa Solemnis, considered one of Beethoven’s supreme achievements.
