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University of Cape Town Online School selected as global Top Innovator

The University of Cape Town’s online school has been selected as one of the Top 12 innovators in the WorldClass Education Challenge held during the World…

Applications for African startup E-Track Programme now open

The E-Track Programme, run by the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB), is looking for applicants for its fifth cohort of African startups. Applications…

Valenture and UCT partner to launch UCT Online High School

Covid-19 has seen countries across the globe embrace e-learning as the new normal. While leading education institutions around the world launch online secondary school branches to…

UCT’s E-Track Programme announces 10 startups selected to participate

The UCT GSB Solution Space, in partnership with ayoba, has entered phase two of their annual E-Track Programme and has announced the 10 selected startups…

Female student entrepreneur wins UCT Shark Tank programme

A student entrepreneur, Shruti Dowlath claimed the title of the winner of UCT’s Shark Tank programme. Dowlath won the title after pitching an innovative…

UCT Zamani project preserves Heritage sites using latest technology

The Zamani Project has been working diligently to document and preserve local and international heritage sites for more than a decade. The Zamani Project…

UCT students design app to help donate breastmilk

A Cape Town-based non-profit Milk Matters and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have worked together to design an app that helps mothers donate…

OceanHub Africa opens accelerator call to startups looking to protect ocean

Cape Town based impact accelerator OceanHub Africa is calling on impact-for-profit startups focused on preserving and restoring the health of the ocean to apply to…

UCT’s Solution Space calls on high-impact scale-ups to apply for new programme

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Solution Space has launched its a programme to support UCT students and alumni looking to start or scale up…

Green machine closes VC deal after pivot from vending solution to tech platform

After a year of running their vending machine business Gideon Greaves and Chad Knezovich were at a loss at what to do. Greaves had sold…

MTN Solution Space opens applications for 2018 Venture Incubation Programme

Building Africa’s next innovative tech startup? The MTN Solution Space — an initiative of UCT’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) and MTN — is…

Young Investors Programme readies students for work in financial services

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) School of Business and Finance (SBF) has launched an initiative to ready business-minded students for a career in…

UCT Upstarts Idea Auction aims to ‘Re-Educate Education’

29 students have gone through a gruelling five-month journey to turn their ideas into viable business models. These ideas were, in turn, auctioned off at…

ATTACQ Retail Ideas Programme launches at universities across the country

The ATTACQ Retail Ideas Programme in partnership with LaunchLab has begun at universities across the country. Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their retail business…

UCT Upstarts aimed to solve real-world problems on campus

The University of Cape Town (UCT) recently completed its entrepreneurial event, UCT Upstarts. The event was focused around solving real-world problems on campus and…

GetSmarter, CiTi partner to offer top entrepreneurial students bursaries

Online learning institution GetSmarter, in partnership with the University of Cape Town (UCT), has collaborated with The Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) to help…

#RhodesHasFallen: 10 startup mistakes South African statues made

#RhodesHasFallen at University of Cape Town and the graffiti is on the wall for many other South African statues as we struggle to contextualise…

CiTi to support more UCT entrepreneurs via Campus Barn Hub

CiTi has been very active in the last few months. Since new CEO Ian Merrington came on board, the tech and innovation initiative has…

MTN, UCT’s Graduate School of Business whip up R15m innovation deal

One of Africa’s top business schools, the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB), and major telecom MTN have announced a…

6 reasons why SA’s Western Cape deserves to be called Silicon Cape

The Western Cape region, which includes Stellenbosch and Cape Town is colloquially referred to as “Silicon Cape”, a nod to the legendary Silicon Valley…

Fear of failure is robbing South Africa of great thinkers

Fear is the greatest energy sapper. Fear of failure, fear of ridicule and fear that things might never happen as you would like them…

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