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The inaugural Research and Recognition Awards took place on August 22, 2019

UWC’s Science Learning Centre for Africa recently hosted its annual Women in Mathematics Mini-Conversation, giving high-school learners the chance to hear how mathematics can improve women’s lives...

UWC Football Club beat the University of KwaZulu-Natal 3-0

UWC launches UWC Media Society with the inaugural annual Media Mind Blast

We are not an institution that sets out to produce Banyana Banyana or Springbok Women’s players. But when we do, it is because there is a very deliberate programme of action in place to give students...

While more women may graduate from South African universities than men, they are not as well represented in the workplace. The UWC-based panel discussion, Where Are The Women? Harnessing the...

The department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science (SRES) at UWC strives towards the development of healthy communities through innovative research and creative teaching within the...

The world is entering a Fourth Industrial Revolution - a technological revolution that will change the way we work, socialise – and learn. To keep up, UWC has produced equally revolutionary...

UWC student Rogail Joseph has vowed to use her God-given sprinting talent to fulfil her dreams and change the lives of her struggling family and community

This Women’s Month the University of the Western Cape is proud to highlight the work of some of its foremost minds. These women have made an invaluable contribution to this institution and the...

UWC women attended a high tea with a difference

Six UWC postgraduate students have been nominated for an exchange semester scholarship at partner institutions from August 2019 to February 2020

Read Andrie Steyn’s opinion piece published in the latest edition of Blue and Gold

This Women’s Month, the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town have teamed up to explore how art, activism and academia can combine to help promote gender and sexual justice...

UWC Football Club travel to Johannesburg (UJ) this week to take on high-rising University of Johannesburg, knowing that they need to collect points if they are to keep their Varsity Football title...

We have to demonstrate how women are able to remain authentic to themselves as they navigate the academic research ladder in higher education

UWC netball sensation Courtleigh Behr talks us through what it’s like to play at a professional level and juggle a busy academic schedule simultaneously

UWC student Petunia Obisi is currently the Western Province Champion and is ranked seventh in 100 metres and 10th in 200 metres in South Africa

Businesses need to find a new way of understanding the flood of information available in our increasingly connected world. UWC Statistics student Katlego Kekesi found a way of doing just that...

To honour the women of the Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) Faculty, Professor Michelle Esau hosted a special event to kickstart Women’s Month

FASSET has contributed over R22 million in student bursaries to hundreds of students from the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty of the University of the Western Cape, helping the Missing...

Gender-based violence within sports has not received enough attention by sports governance bodies. SA is developing a policy that prioritises the safety of sportswomen

The Next Einstein Foundation believes that the African continent will give rise to the next generation of scientific super-geniuses. New NEF Fellow Dr Fanelwa Ngece-Ajayi shares that belief - and...

UWC alumna Laurian Johannes recently made history by becoming the first female head coach of a national rugby team when she was appointed to head the South African Women’s Under 20 team