Fresh from hosting an enormously successful Africa Month, being crowned the Varsity Cup rugby champions and celebrating 20 years of Democracy with a memorable concert and commemorative event on our rugby fields, we are proud to congratulate the achievements of all of our June graduates. This June, we had a total of 1 508 graduates of which 110 were doctoral graduates. As many of our alumni have become leaders in their fields of expertise, we believe that our latest graduates will do the same.

UCT reached a critical milestone in its admissions policy for 2016 when it was ratified in principle by Council earlier this month. The adjusted policy is expected to help advance the university's redress and diversity goals.

I am pleased to introduce this first issue of UCT News. It is a regular publication that will keep you in touch with UCT's news and developments whether you are on campus or already out in the world making your mark.

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Dr Max Price
Vice-Chancellor

The UCT community gathered on the Green Mile on Thursday, 22 May 2014, to celebrate twenty years of freedom in South Africa, and to commemorate the life and legacy of the nation's late great leader, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

Rugby fans were left with an overwhelming sense of 'sjoe' as UCT claimed the 2014 FNB Varsity Cup trophy in surreal circumstances. The Ikey Tigers came back from eighteen points down to claim a 39-33 victory over NWU-Puk with a converted try in the dying seconds of the final at the Fanie du Toit Stadium in Potchefstroom.

The University of Cape Town Council voted on Saturday, 14 June 2014, to approve in principle a new admissions policy model that will incorporate race as one of several factors to be considered in assessing an applicant's historic disadvantage.

On 4 December 2013, the UCT Student Representative Council (SRC) was notified of the roll-out of a new sBux system by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). On 16 January 2014, the SRC rejected the sBux scheme in its entirety, followed up by a circular to all UCT students explaining the reasons for their decision.

Good science, hard work, dogged determination and perseverance led to the breakthrough that allows women to protect themselves from the HIV, proclaimed Professor Salim Abdool Karim upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Science in Medicine.

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