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The Pizzuti Collection museum, formerly UCT headquarters from 1924 to 2008. The Order of United Commercial Travelers was formed on January 16, 1888, by six men in a meeting at the Neil House in Columbus, Ohio to provide a society for traveling salesmen, or commercial travelers.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Kaapstad, Xhosa: iYunivesithi yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa.Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest university in Sub-Saharan Africa in continuous operation.
Nora Schimming-Chase, Namibia's first ambassador to Germany, obtained a teaching diploma from UCT in 1961 [ 3] Carmel Schrire, Professor of Archaeology, Rutgers University. Robert Carl-Heinz Shell, South African author and professor of African Studies. Lady Skollie, feminist artist and activist.
Rosina Mamokgethi Phakeng GCOB OIG (née Mmutlana, born 1 November 1966) [4] is a South African [5] professor of mathematics education who in 2018 became a vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT). [6][7] She has been the vice principal of research and innovation, at the University of South Africa [8] and acting executive dean of ...
Statue being removed on 9 April 2015. Rhodes Must Fall was a protest movement that began on 9 March 2015, originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that commemorates Cecil Rhodes. The campaign for the statue's removal received global attention [2][3] and led to a wider movement to "decolonise" education across ...
University of Cape Town Football Club, also known as UCT FC, is the football club representing the University of Cape Town based in Cape Town, South Africa . The University of Cape Town Football Club boasts 250 student members with three men's teams and three women's teams. The Men's & Women's First Teams represent the university in the ...
Cecil Rhodes. An aerial video of the Rhodes Memorial in 2015. The Rhodes Memorial is a large monument in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, situated close to Table Mountain. It is a memorial to the English -born South African politician Cecil John Rhodes (1853 – 1902), was designed by architect ...
The Chancellorship is a titular position; the chief executive of the university is the Vice-Chancellor. The current Chancellor, the sixth since UCT was elevated to university status in 1918, is Precious Moloi-Motsepe. She is succeeding Graça Machel, the wife of South African ex-President Nelson Mandela who served as chancellor from 1999 until ...