❯ Faculty Charter

❯ Transferrable Successes

H – Owning UCT's African Identity

❯ Sutherland Reburial

Following an archiving audit of the UCT Human Skeletal Collection in 2017, the university discovered that it had 11 skeletons in its collection that were unethically obtained by the institution in the 1920s. The university has acknowledged this past injustice, which forms part of its history. Nine of these individuals were brought to the university in the 1920s from Sutherland in the Northern Cape. UCT has been working with the community of Sutherland and affected families to return the skeletal remains of these nine individuals to their descendants. On 26 November 2023, remains of the nine individuals were reburied in Sutherland. This process has enabled the university to provide redress and social justice through science. Read more

❯ Valuing Our Stories

We are the inheritors of a distinguished legacy and multifaceted heritage. We each have a varied experience of that heritage, which marks who we are and who we are constantly becoming. This site is a space for recalling, for listening with compassion and for learning new lessons of how we can become in a shared and complex future. Valuing Our Stories is an attempt to unravel the complexity of our past and commit to a constantly renewing present. The objective of this project is to develop a digital collection of stories upon which our knowledge is created and recreated. You are invited as members of the Faculty community — staff or student, past or present — to express yourselves in the form of video, writing, podcast or art in a way that is true to your spirit. All are invited, whether you have lived through the difficult experiences or saw what was happening and have reflected on it in retrospect. Join us on this journey, which deepens our stories and sharpens our vision towards health equity. Read more

C – Staff Access, Support, and Success

B – Student Access, Support, and Success

❯ Renaming of Buildings & Rooms 

Jeffery Dumo Baqwa Room

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Frances Ames Room

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Aadil Moerat Room

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❯ Pride Month

In 2021, the Faculty embarked on a campaign to start a meaningful conversation to celebrate, honour, and raise the voices of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies. This important work is ongoing as our learning journey continues… be an ally.

• Webinar 1: Nothing about us, without us - Celebrating Pride
• Webinar 2: Trans and Gender Diversity within Higher Education
• Musical: Human

❯ FHS Transformation Survey

On the 1st of July 2021, the Faculty launched the first ever all-inclusive transformation survey. The aim of the survey was to establish a baseline measure of the issues that pervade in the faculty, and to provide a platform from which we engage the work of change through focused events, the pursuit of the employment equity goals of the University of Cape Town, the alteration of physical spaces and changes in pedagogy, research practices, and clinical service delivery. Ultimately, the intension of this survey is to move us towards an environment where all members of the faculty feel a sense of belonging, and that their humanity and diversity are respected and valued.

Informing and guiding the ongoing transformation work across the Faculty, the survey findings highlight that there is still much work to be done, particularly regarding discrimination, harassment, and violence in intersection with race and gender, career development and mentorship, leadership training, and curriculum transformation.

❯ Transferrable Successes

D – Place and Space (Language, Names, Symbols, Artworks, and Identity)