contact  // 08 Aug 2023

Emerita Professor Linda Ronnie

Emerita Professor Linda Ronnie was appointed acting DVC: Teaching and Learning from 17 July 2023.

contact  // 30 Jun 2024

Emeritus Professor Brian Kantor

Emeritus Professor Brian Kantor had a long academic career at the University of Cape Town including a term as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce (1997–2001). His career included stints as a Visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh PA (1978–79) and Columbia University Graduate School of Business, New York (1994).

page  // 01 Mar 2017

Committee structures

UCT's committees and working groups are organised in clusters, providing a logical hierarchy,  while maintaining simplicity, accountability and defined responsibilities.
page  // 01 Mar 2017

Legislation

The University of Cape Town (UCT) statute, institutional rules and regulations provide the framework for governance at the university.
page  // 01 Mar 2017

Student governance

Please visit the Department of Student Affairs website for information on the following:
contact  // 19 Apr 2022

Associate Professor Kasturi Behari-Leak

Associate Professor Kasturi Behari-Leak has been appointed dean of the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) from 1 April 2022.

Associate Professor Behari-Leak has a long history in education, with 32 years spent in the education space, of which 17 have been in higher education. This includes, but is not limited to, educational and organisational leadership, higher education transformation, social inclusion and educational change, decolonial practice, curriculum development and pedagogical innovation.

contact  // 19 Apr 2022

Dr Catherine Duggan

Dr Catherine Duggan has been appointed as the new director of the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) effective from 1 September 2020.

contact  // 19 Apr 2022

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe is a businesswoman and philanthropist who started her career in medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She worked in various public hospitals in South Africa as well as at the Medical College of Virginia in the United States. Together with her husband, Dr Patrice Motsepe, she founded the Motsepe Foundation in 1999, and in 2013 they became the first couple from Africa to join The Giving Pledge.

contact  // 19 Apr 2022

Mr Mughtar Parker

Mughtar Parker has been appointed as the executive director of Properties and Services with effect from 1 July 2018. Mughtar has a BCom degree in accounting from the University of the Western Cape and two diplomas from Corenet Global in Atlanta, USA. Both Corenet's Diplomas entitles him to hold the professional designations of Master of Corporate Real Estate (MCR) and Senior Leader of Corporate Estate (SLCE), making him the first person to hold such designation within Sub-Saharan Africa.