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Chante Heynes overcame long odds and serious illness to realize her dream, graduating with her Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of the Western Cape’s 2018 Autumn Graduation Ceremony

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) launched their Masters Programme in Data Science on 28 March 2018

An engaged citizenry willing to hold the government accountable is the solution to land redistribution‚ rather than a constitutional amendment - as Professor Ruth Hall noted in a public lecture on 10...

Despite appearances, we’re all the same. That’s the message of Skin We Are In, a new children’s book explaining the science behind skin colour

Youth helping youth: the University of the Western Cape is empowering students to tackle financial literacy with the UWC/Metropolitan FINLIT Challenge

UWC rugby team, aka FNB UWC, beat Walter Sisulu University (FNB WSU) 55-10 to clinch the Varsity Shield tournament for the second consecutive year, bidding their goodbyes to the competition in grand...

The experience of seeing a young visually impaired child respond positively to the sound of an instrument tugs at one’s heartstrings - but knowing UWC helped create this opportunity, makes it even...

UWC rugby team has emphasised their dominance of the Varsity Shield competition once again, trouncing Tshwane University of Technology 66-7 to reach the final of the 2018 championship

It’s official! UWC Rugby team has been promoted to the Varsity Cup – South Africa’s premier university rugby competition – for the first time after sweeping aside all their opponents to top the...

After sailing for nearly seven months and conquering rough storms, the world’s first Indian all-woman circumnavigation crew were welcomed on campus this week in true UWC fashion

Mothers and grandmothers have often been behind the success of our greatest South Africans - as the uMama documentary creatively portrays, to rave reviews

The University of the Western Cape wasn’t actually the first university in the Western Cape (don’t let the name mislead you). Still, UWC has managed to rack up an impressive amount of firsts. For...

Boxing sensation Sinethemba Blom and hockey star Ryan Julius have been selected for the star-studded Team South African for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia in April

UDubs Got Talent - too much of it in fact, as was shown when Season 4 of the show ended with a surprise twist: crowning two equally deserving champions

As student registration kicked off around UWC, a group of international researchers was also gathering at the University to determine if greater commercialization of agriculture could – and does –...

New to UWC? Wondering where to go and what to know, and how to make the most of it? Here are five places to visit that might give you a bit of direction in your university life

Biotech freshman Gert van Lill learned a lot during Orientation - such as that the buildings have weird names, that it’s a great place to make friends, and that here he can learn to make a...

South Africa offers useful lessons for the African continent on how to extend social welfare grants to the poor, argues PLAAS Senior Researcher David Neves

UWC 2017 Sportswoman of the Year - and Banyana Banyana footballer - Thembi Kgatlana is leaving South Africa to join US-based Houston Dash Football Club - but UWC will always be here for her

It’s the Bushies against the All Blacks, as reigning Varsity Shield champions UWC face off against Walter Sisulu University in the opening match of the 2018 FNB Varsity Shield Rugby Championship on...

Nkanyezi Sikakane is one of many fresher students who are calling the University of the Western Cape home for the first time in 2018 - and she plans to make the most of it

On 9 February 2018, UWC’s Student Representative Council contributed R435 000 to the Ikamva Lethu Fund to assist students with financial clearance and pursuing their dreams

It’s not always important to be first - but it does help, and sometimes, the early bird really does get the worm. Here are a few times UWC was ahead of the curve

Cape Town universities and colleges joined the Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations at the first Madiba Centenary Inter-University and Colleges Colloquium at UWC on 6 February 2018