The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a multicultural, multinational community of around 5 000 academic and professional, administrative support and service staff, and some 29 000 students who come from over 100 countries across the globe. Offering degrees in six faculties –Commerce, Engineering &...
From the second decade of the eighteenth century, the enslaved population surpassed the settler population. By the time the British gained control of the Cape in 1806, and the Colony had expanded far beyond the Cape peninsula, the enslaved made up approximately 55% of Cape Town's population (...
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In early 2018, Cape Town (population ~3.7 million) was at risk of being one of the first major metropolitan areas in the world to run out of water. This was due to a severe multi-year drought that led to the levels of supply dams falling to an unpreceden
This article locates and describes the work of the Multimedia Education Group (MEG) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). This work is contextualised by three national and international challenges, these being (1) the need to increase access to new technologies and overcome the digital divide,...
Tag: Cape Town Looking out over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at Cape Point. Photo by me licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 A couple weeks ago, I started an adventure I never imagined I would. I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to attend Wikimania 2018. Last month I posted my reflection on...
Additionally, Cape Town, being a formerly segregated, ‘whites only’ area, is not reflective of the country’s statistics. 41.4% of Capetonians speak Afrikaans at home, followed neck-and-neck by Xhosa at 28.7% and English at 27.9%. Probably around 90% speak at least passable English, due...
According to statistics, per capita water consumption during a drought crisis can be reduced by about one-third of pre-drought levels without affecting the overall national economy (City of Cape Town, 2019). In other words, this phenomenon reflects the huge potential of Cape Town to save water...
While Cape Town may not be representative of most developing country cities where the majority of the population consumes below 6 kl/month at a household level, the heterogenous population of Cape Town offers a good testbed for the extent to which different types of nudges may be targeted to ...