The third term has swiftly come and gone and I am sure you are all gearing up for the final stretch before the year’s end. I trust students will enjoy this short vacation, but also use it to place themselves in good stead for the next term.

In support of an important Women’s Month, this issue of UCT News leads with our Chancellor Graça Machel and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s participation in the twelfth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Series. Other noteworthy developments include a new TB treatment, a reflective commemoration of the Marikana massacre, the launch of our OpenUCT institutional repository, and a look into some of UCT’s intriguing science facilities.

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Dr Max Price
Vice-Chancellor

Chancellor Graca Machel hosted part of the twelfth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Series at UCT, which saw prominent figures such as Nomboniso Gasa, Mbuyiselo Botha, Zethu Matebeni and Michelle Bachelet address a packed Jameson Hall.

UCT scientists and the universities of Stellenbosch and Free State are part of an international research group which is on track to deliver more effective, less expensive and shorter TB treatment using a new combination of drugs.

During August the OpenUCT institutional repository was formally launched. This facility enables lecturers and researchers to legally and freely make available their research, teaching and engaged scholarship resources, to support access, reuse and sharing of materials.

It's been two years since police killed 34 striking mineworkers near Lonmin's Marikana mine outside Rustenburg on 16 August 2012. Recently, members of the UCT community commemorated the massacre and debated its structural causes and implications for society.

We highlight some of UCT's high-tech facilities that let you take a closer look at the world around you – whether you are peering into the depths of space and time, or studying the behaviour of subatomic particles in very cold conditions.

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