UCT’s Prof Kelly Chibale receives honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna

Professor Kelly Chibale shares his journey in drug discovery and the story of the centre he founded to train a new generation of African scientists…

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The Release of Nelson Mandela (1990): On February 11, 1990, the world’s media descended on Cape Town as Nelson Mandela stepped out of Victor Verster Prison a free man after 27 years. Hours later, he addressed a massive, surging crowd of over 100,000 people from the balcony of Cape Town City Hall. His speech—broadcast live to hundreds of millions worldwide—marked the official death knell of apartheid and established Cape Town as the global stage for South Africa’s democratic dawn.