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The text in the history section seems to be copy-pasted from the UCT website:https://www.uct.ac.za/main/about/history41.157.214.12 (talk)20:49, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Could anybody get the exact number of Rhodes scholars produced by UCT, it would be nice to have the figure under the Alumni as it must be one of the worlds highest considering that the UCT trust claims that 52% of South African rhodes scholarships have been awarded to UCT graduates, and seeing as 5 - 9 Rhodes scholarships per year have been awarded to South Africa since 1902, the figure must be around 270 or more.
I heard something news like UCT awarded two honourary degrees to famous heroes (Nelson Mandela) and (Aung San Suu Kyi) recently. Does anyone have references to it and can you update it, please?
File:Wheatley-90653 - Professor Andrew Young (1873-1937) by John Laviers Wheatley.jpg will be undeleted on Commons on 1 January 2026, once its copyright expires. It depicts "Professor Andrew Young (1873-1937), Professor of Geology at Cape Town University" and is "a study relating to the portrait in Cape Town University Collection".Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);Talk to Andy;Andy's edits17:22, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
When users input "UCT" they should not be taken DIRECTLY to an article about University of Cape Town. Coordinated Universal Time is the MOST LIKELY thing they are looking for (because it is of relevance to everyone in the world every second of our lives, compared to the small minority of people who will ever have ANY reason to look up the University of Cape Town for anything). It's probably hubris for any university (with few exceptions such as M.I.T.) to want its initials to carry a user straight to the article on that university. Cape Town may not be the only university in the world with those initials. The destination reached for an input of UCT should be either the disambiguation page OR "Coordinated Universal Time". Who is saying contrary? Someone with some connection to the University of Cape Town, no doubt. Not someone disinterested and lacking a promotional agenda. If you let this person get away with it, will you also allow me to change "UA" from "United Artists" to "University of Arkansas" based upon the same PERSONAL (i.e. non-encyclopedic) motivations?74.64.105.76 (talk)12:29, 22 September 2020 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson[reply]
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