The Law, Race & Gender Research Unit and the Centre for African Studies invite you to a seminar titled The Land Question in Sub-Saharan Africa: longer term processes and the recent "land rush" by Professor Pauline Peters on 23 April at 12h30 - 14h00. All are welcome!

The Law, Race and Gender Research Unit invites you to a seminar by Helen Stacy, titled US Approaches to Human Trafficking, on 10 April at 12h00 - 14h00. All are welcome to attend!

The Rural Women's Action Research Project at the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit invites you to a seminar by Siyabu Manona on 30 March 2012 at 12h30-14h00.

All are welcome!

UCT's Law, Race and Gender Unit (LRG) has called for new legislation to replace the controversial Traditional Courts Bill. Introduced by government in 2008, the bill was withdrawn from the National Assembly last year after pressure from opponents. Its imminent reintroduction in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) was announced in mid-December, giving rural people two months to submit their comments by 15 February. Read more...

The work of the Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) and the Rural Women's Action Research Project (RWAR) are a good match for UCT's social responsiveness objectives, both in letter and spirit. Their research not only tackled two critical and complex social issues - food insecurity and the effects of customary law and the Traditional Courts Bill on women in rural South Africa, respectively - but also did so with energy and sensitivity, and offered solutions, to boot. Read more...

The UCT law team won the Copenhagen competition in which they were required to negotiate an international treaty on access to food.

October 14th, and Alumni from 1981, 1991 and (for the first time a 10th Reunion!) 2001 start converging on Kramer

The Rural Women's Action Research Project at the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit invites you to a seminar by Sanele Sibanda on 25 November 2011 at 12h30. The title of his presentation will be Not purpose-made! Transformative constitutionalism, post-independence constitutionalism and the struggle to eradicate poverty. All are welcome!

Professor Rochelle le Roux has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the South African Institute for Drugfree Sport.

Even the Constitutional Court doesn't always get race quite right, Professor Pierre de Vos suggested in his inaugural lecture, The Past is Unpredictable: Race, redress and remembrance in the South African Constitution, delivered at UCT on 14 September. Read more...

Read about 3 of our graduates in the Top 200 Young South Africans of Today

High school learners from the Western and Northern Cape provinces tested their legal skills when they took part in the recent Regional Mini-Moot Court Competition, organised by the UCT's Faculty of Law and the University of the Western Cape's Legal Aid Clinic. The Grade 11 and 12 learners argued both as applicants and respondents on Constitutional matters that affect them and the community. Read more...

The Department of Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law has beefed up its staff complement by appointing new lecturers. Read more...

The UK-based UCT Trust's fundraising efforts received a boost when the Wolfson Foundation awarded them £550 000 (about R7 million) towards a suite of 22 study bedrooms in the Obz Square residence, currently under construction in Main Road. This is the ninth grant from the foundation, based in the UK, which has been supporting projects at UCT since 1995. Read more...

A team of five UCT law students has won the 2011 White & Case South Africa Jessup Competition, part of the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held at the University of Johannesburg on 29 January.