University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town is a major tertiary education institution in Cape Town, South Africa, located on the Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's Peak. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa. It is a member of the Association of African Universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the Adamastor Trust of Western Cape universities. University of Cape Town - Campus. The main teaching campus, known as the Upper Campus, i ...

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The main teaching campus, known as the Upper Campus, is located on the slopes of Devil's Peak. This campus contains in a relatively compact site the faculties of Science, Engineering, Commerce, and most of the faculty of Humanities, as well as the residences Smuts Hall and Fuller Hall. Upper Campus is centered on Jameson Hall, the location for graduation and other ceremonial events, as well as many examinations. The original buildings and layout of Upper Campus were designed by JM Solomon and built between 1928 and 1930. Since that time, many more buil ...

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Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale in the Western Cape, approximately 180km from Cape Town and 100km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas. He studied fine arts at the University of Cape Town and became a committed opponent against the long held policy of apartheid. He left South Africa for Paris in the early 1960s. When he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, he was not allowed to return. ...

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The Association of Commonwealth Universities represents over 480 universities from Commonwealth countries. "We serve our member institutions by advancing international co-operation and understanding in higher education, and by providing a broad range of services and facilities." Association of Commonwealth Universities - History. In 1912, the University of London took the iniative to assemble 53 representatives of universities in London to hold a Congress of Universities o ...

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The Bachelor of Business Science (BBusSci) degree is offered by the University of Cape Town and is aimed at students who wish to make a career in a Business Enteprise. It is similar to the Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree, however it is a four year Honours level stream that covers a broader spectrum of business-related topics. Additionally, all Business Science degrees require the student to take a full first-year mathematics course. Currently, a student reading the Business Science degree will be able to specialise in ...

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Allan McLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African-born American physicist who shared a part of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan. Cormack was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He attended the Rondebosch Boys High School, where he was active in the debating and tennis teams. He received his B.Sc. in physics in 1944 from the University of Cape Town and his M.Sc. in crystallography in 1945 from the same institution. He worked at ...

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Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (January 17, 1881–October 24, 1955) was a British social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural Functionalism, a framework that describes basic concepts relating to the social structure of primitive civilizations. Radcliffe-Brown was born in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England. He was seen as the classic to Bronislaw Malinowski's romantic. Radcliffe-Brown brought French sociology (namely Émile Durkheim) to British anthropology, constructing a rigorous battery of concepts to frame et ...

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André Philippus Brink (born on 29 May 1935 in Vrede) is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s, he and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends. His novel Kennis van die aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans ...

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The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape, was part of the huge (and now defunct) Cape Province. Prior to the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 it was called the Cape Colony (see the History of Cape Colony). Western Cape Province - Law and Government. The capital of the Western Cape Province is the City of Cape Town. Its current Premier is Ebrahim Rasool and the Director-General is Gilber ...

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Varsity is the official student newspaper of the University of Cape Town (UCT). In 1942, the first edition of Varsity went to print. The paper was founded as a result of the burgeoning cultural tensions on campus between Afrikaans and English students. The student representative council (SRC) sought to control these tensions by uniting the English student newspaper UCTattle and the Afrikaans medium publication Die Spantou. The SRC aimed to lessen the widening gap in political opinion advocated by each of the ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1829 - Events. January 19 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres March 4 - USA: Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President of the United States of America. March 22 - Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence. Gr ...

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Christiaan Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon. He became famous for performing the world's first open heart transplant. Christiaan Barnard - Early life. Barnard was born and grew up in Beaufort West, South Africa. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, did his internship and residency at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, and became a general practitioner in Ceres, a rural town in the Western Cape province. While practicing there in 1948, ...

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Adamastor Trust is the name under which the Western Cape Tertiary Institutions Trust trades and prefers to be known. The Trust was registered (as the Western Cape Tertiary Institutions Trust ) in August 1993. Its members are the four major tertiary educational institutions located within 80 km of each other in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The primary purpose of the Trust is to facilitate co-operation between the participating institutions. The Board of Trustees consists of one Vice-Rector or Deputy Vice-Chancellor nominated by each institution. The Trust receives and admini ...

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Cecil John Rhodes (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902) was an English businessman and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia (which was named after him). Rhodesia (later Northern and Southern Rhodesia) eventually became Zambia and Zimbabwe. Rhodes profited greatly by exploiting Southern Africa's natural resources, proceeds of which founded the Rhodes Scholarship upon his death. Cecil Rhodes - England. Rhodes attended the grammar school at Bishop's Stortford. He fell ill shortly after leaving school, an ...

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Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: eKapa or SaseKapa) is the third most populous city in South Africa. As the oldest city in South Africa, it is known affectionately as the Mother City. It is the legislative capital of South Africa, as well as capital of the Western Cape province. Cape Town is famous for its natural harbour, as well as its location near the Cape of Good Hope. Its central area is dominated by Table Mountain, so named after its flat top ...

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Vincent Ebrahim is a British actor of Indian ethnicity. Born in South Africa, he studied drama at the University of Cape Town. After immigrating to Britain in 1976, he spent a decade with a traveling theater company, performing in plays such as Borderline by Hanif Kureishi. Since 1990, he has worked with Tara Arts, performing in such plays as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Oedipus the King, Troilus and Cressida, and Antigone. He is probably best known for playing Ashwin, the finance-obsessed father, on The Kumars at No ...

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October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). There are 91 days remaining. October 1 - Events. 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. 959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England. 965 - John XIII becomes Pope. 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam. 1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly. 1795 - Belgium is conquered by Fran ...

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Sir Aaron Klug, OM, FRS (born 11 August 1926 in Zelvas, Lithuania ) is a Lithuanian-born British physicist and chemist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy. Having moved to South Africa at the age of two, he graduated with a degree in science at the University of Witwatersrand and studied crystallography at the University of Cape Town before moving to England, completing his ...

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Naki was selected by Robert Goetz of the Medical Faculty, while working as a gardener, to work in the clinical laboratories, where he helped by caring for the laboratory animals; Goetz first asked him to help him hold a giraffe while he operated. He soon became involved in surgical procedures in the laboratories, including anaesthetics, as well as post-operative care for the animals. Despite his lack of formal education, his technique and capacity was recognised, and he received special permission to continue research in the laboratories. However, he was never able to train as a doctor, and was barred from the whites- ...

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Barnard was born and grew up in Beaufort West, South Africa. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, did his internship and residency at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, and became a general practitioner in Ceres, a rural town in the Western Cape province. While practicing there in 1948, he married a nurse, Aletta Louw. In 1951, he returned to Cape Town to work at two hospitals and complete his Masters degree, receiving that in 1953 from the University of Cape Town. From 1956, he attended the University of Minnesota to study surgery. While in Minneapolis he became involved in cardio ...

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Christiaan Barnard, Christiaan Barnard - Early life, Christiaan Barnard - Heart transplant, Christiaan Barnard - Retirement

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