Ball wizard: Adam Merzougie of Team Pelé dribbles past members of Team Mandela during an exhibition match at UCT. Team Pelé won 8-1. Great goals and nimble soccer tricks marked an entertaining football clash that capped a long programme to spread word of the true essence of the great Brazilian legend Pelé among rural and township South African youngsters. The six-a-side exhibition game on UCT's FIFA-accredited artificial soccer turf on 6 July pitted teams representing … [Read more...]

The writing's on the board: South Africa's growing energy needs has triggered a greater need for alternative-energy resources, said Eskom's Kannan Lakmeeharan. The Department of Electrical Engineering hosted a seminar titled Renewable Energy in South Africa: Initiatives, Opportunities, Challenges and Innovation on 24 June, where participants looked at the need for a diversity of electricity-generation technologies in South Africa. The recent energy crisis and ESKOM's difficulties to secure … [Read more...]

Collaborating: Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi (seated) and Prof Juan J Ceballos, acting chancellor of University of Villa Clara in Cuba, at a graduation of medical students at UCT. Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has urged medical graduates to be the "agents of change" and uphold a high moral and caring ethos to help South Africa turn around the ailing health care system. At a graduation, at UCT on 7 July, of 40 medical students who were part of the South Africa-Cuba Health … [Read more...]