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UWC Small Business Clinic Finds a Home
The business of turning theory into practice is now a reality at the University of the Western Cape as the Small Business Clinic gets ready to open its doors.The faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) will ensure that the Small Business Clinic benefits both students and entrepreneurs who use their services. |
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Cutting-edge Unit Donation to Enhance Community Oral Healthcare, Dental Education
The power of partnerships in advancing community oral healthcare will take centre stage today, as the Tygerberg Oral Health Centre and the University of the Western Cape (UWC) unveils its latest addition: a state-of-the-art Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) unit. |
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Reflecting on the Success of UWC Open Day 2024: A Celebration of Diversity and Potential
This year’s UWC Open Day was an overwhelming success, with thousands of potential students flooding through the institution’s gates. It reaffirms the University’s collective belief in the potential of every individual to make a meaningful impact, and serves to encourage the campus community to continue the pursuit of excellence. |
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NELGA, PLAAS, and beyond: a partnership lesson in protecting communities
Malany Meyer, a community-based activist who works with PLAAS, is from one of Cape Town’s largest and most impoverished townships, Lavender Hill. In 2021, Malany was evicted from her home by police and Red Ants, who broke down her and others’ structures while they were in their homes. After the combative confrontation with eviction teams, Malany’s 13-year-old daughter started to look for her through the debris. Malany had initially thought her daughter was away from the vicinity and protected when the violent eviction happened. |
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Communications & Marketing Office
Do you have any important UWC stories to share? Do you know of an event that you’d like to see featured? Have you heard of UWC students, staff or alumni who’ve done amazing things, which you think the world should know about? Or maybe you have a few suggestions, comments or questions about something in this newsletter? Whatever the case may be, the Communications & Marketing Office would really like to hear from you. Just email us on ia@uwc.ac.za, call us on 021 959 4229, or drop by our offices. |
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