University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa, founded in 1829 as the South African College and granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest university in Sub-Saharan Africa in continuous operation.开普敦大学（University of Cape Town，缩写 UCT）是位于南非开普敦的公立研究型大学，1829 年创办，时名南非学院（South African College），1918 年获完全大学地位，是南非最古老的大学，也是撒哈拉以南非洲持续办学最久的大学。

Organised in 57 departments across six faculties and teaching solely in English, it is home to about 30,000 students on six campuses, is the only African member of the Global University Leaders Forum within the World Economic Forum, and places 184th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校设六个学院、57 个学系，全部以英语授课，约 3 万名学生在六个校区就读，是世界经济论坛全球大学领导者论坛中唯一的非洲成员，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 184。

History

• The university was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men.1829 年，学校在 Groote Kerk 的一次会议上创办，初名南非学院，是一所男子中学。

• A small tertiary-education facility was introduced in 1874, and the college grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north created a booming demand for skills in mining.1874 年学院附设小型高等教育机构，1880 年后，随着北方黄金与钻石矿藏的发现带来旺盛的矿业人才需求，学院规模显著扩大。

• Between 1880 and 1900 the college developed into a fully fledged university, built its first dedicated science laboratories and opened departments of mineralogy and geology to serve the emerging diamond and gold mining industries.1880 至 1900 年间，学院发展为完全意义上的大学，建成首批专用科学实验室，并为新兴的钻石与黄金采矿业开设矿物学系与地质学系。

• The UCT crest was designed in 1859 by Charles Davidson Bell, Surveyor-General of the Cape Colony and an accomplished artist who also designed medals and the triangular Cape stamp.开普敦大学校徽由开普殖民地测绘总监查尔斯·戴维森·贝尔于 1859 年设计，他还是设计过奖章与三角形开普邮票的画家。

• In 1886 the professor of chemistry Paul Daniel Hahn convinced the council to admit four women into his chemistry class on a trial basis.1886 年，化学教授保罗·丹尼尔·哈恩说服校务委员会，允许四名女生试读其化学课程。

• Owing to the exceptional standard of their work, the college decided to admit women students permanently in 1887 in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.鉴于女生功课出色，学院 1887 年为纪念维多利亚女王钻禧决定永久招收女生。

• The years from 1902 to 1918 saw the establishment of the Medical School, the introduction of engineering courses and a Department of Education.1902 至 1918 年间，学院相继设立医学院、开设工程课程并成立教育系。

• UCT was incorporated as a public university by the University of Cape Town Act, 1916, a private act of Parliament, and was formally established as a university in 1918 on the basis of the Alfred Beit bequest and substantial gifts from the mining magnates Julius Wernher and Otto Beit, together with the first significant state grant.开普敦大学依 1916 年议会特别法案《开普敦大学法》注册为公立大学，1918 年依托阿尔弗雷德·拜特的遗产捐赠以及矿业巨头 Julius Wernher 与 Otto Beit 的大额馈赠正式成为大学，并首次获得可观的政府拨款。

• In 1928 the university moved the bulk of its facilities to Groote Schuur on the slopes of Devil's Peak, on land bequeathed to the nation by Cecil John Rhodes as the site for a national university, and celebrated its centenary the following year.1928 年，学校将大部分设施迁至魔鬼峰山麓的格罗特舒尔（Groote Schuur），此地为塞西尔·罗兹遗赠给国家用于兴建大学的土地，次年学校举行百年校庆。

• The university admitted its first small group of black students in the 1920s, although their number remained relatively low until the 1980s.学校 1920 年代开始招收首批黑人学生，但其人数直至 1980 年代始终偏少。

• Between 1960 and 1990 the university earned the nickname Moscow on the Hill for its sustained opposition to apartheid, particularly in higher education.1960 至 1990 年间，学校因坚持不懈反对种族隔离制度、尤其是在高等教育领域的立场，得名「山上的莫斯科」。

• In 1968 the government, which had declared the university a white educational institution, pressured it into withdrawing the appointment of the black lecturer Archie Mafeje, sparking a nine-day student sit-in from 15 August 1968, an early example of resistance to apartheid by progressive whites.1968 年，已宣布该校为白人教育机构的政府施压学校撤回对黑人讲师 Archie Mafeje 的任命，引发 1968 年 8 月 15 日起为期九天的学生静坐，这是进步白人早期反抗种族隔离的标志性事件。

• From the 1980s to the early 1990s the number of black students admitted rose by 35 per cent, and by 2004 nearly half of the university's 20,000 students were black and just under half of the student body was female.1980 年代至 1990 年代初，黑人学生人数增长 35%，到 2004 年全校 2 万名学生中近半为黑人，女生占比略低于半数。

• The Rhodes Must Fall protest movement began on 9 March 2015 against the statue of Cecil Rhodes on the campus, and following a Council vote the statue was removed on 9 April 2015, drawing global attention and sparking a wider movement to decolonise education across South Africa.2015 年 3 月 9 日，「罗兹必须倒下」运动爆发，要求拆除校园内的塞西尔·罗兹塑像，经校务委员会投票，塑像于 2015 年 4 月 9 日被移除，事件引发国际关注，并在南非掀起教育去殖民化的更广泛运动。

• The FeesMustFall movement, which began at the University of the Witwatersrand and spread to UCT and Rhodes University, called for the abolition of tuition fee increases for the 2016 academic year, and its demands for decolonisation brought substantial changes to South African public universities.「学费必须下降」运动始于金山大学，蔓延至开普敦大学与罗兹大学，要求取消 2016 学年学费上涨，其去殖民化诉求给南非公立大学带来深刻变革。

• Jameson Hall was renamed Sarah Baartman Hall in a process that began in 2019 and was finalized with a ceremony in 2025, the most notable example of a wider renaming of buildings on campus.作为校园建筑更名计划中最受瞩目的一例，Jameson Hall 更名为 Sarah Baartman Hall，更名程序 2019 年启动，2025 年举行仪式最终落地。

• In September 2019 the rape and murder of the film and media student Uyinene Mrwetyana provoked widespread public outcry, a campus shutdown and protests across South Africa, after which President Ramaphosa announced reforms and a foundation and a special fund in her name were created to provide scholarships for female students in the Humanities Faculty.2019 年 9 月，影视系学生 Uyinene Mrwetyana 遭奸杀引发广泛公愤，校园停课、南非各地爆发抗议，总统拉马福萨随后宣布改革，学校并设立以其命名的基金会与专项基金，资助人文学院女生。

• In March 2020 the university opened the Neuroscience Institute at Groote Schuur Hospital in collaboration with the Western Cape Provincial Government, the first dedicated interdisciplinary centre for the study of and development of treatments for neurological and mental disorders in Africa.2020 年 3 月，学校与西开普省政府合作在格罗特舒尔医院开设神经科学研究所，这是非洲首个专门研究神经系统与精神疾病并研发其治疗手段的跨学科中心。

• In October 2025 it was announced that UCT would host the first Times Higher Education World Academic Summit in Africa, to be held from 29 September to 1 October 2026 under the theme Knowledge, justice, and futures: Universities in the age of intelligence.2025 年 10 月，学校宣布将主办首届在非洲举行的泰晤士高等教育世界学术峰会，会期定于 2026 年 9 月 29 日至 10 月 1 日，主题为「知识、正义与未来：智能时代的大学」。

• The titular head of the university is the chancellor, a ceremonial position without executive power whose primary role is to confer degrees and represent the university, and the first chancellor, in office from 1918 to 1936, was the Prince of Wales.学校的名誉首长是校监（chancellor），为不掌握行政权力的仪式性职位，主要职责是代表学校授予学位，1918 至 1936 年在任的首任校监为威尔士亲王。

• Sir John Carruthers Beattie was the first vice-chancellor, serving from 1918 to 1938, the years that saw the university's establishment and its move to Groote Schuur, and later chancellors included General Jan Smuts from 1936, Harry Oppenheimer from 1967 and Graça Machel from 1999.Sir John Carruthers Beattie 是首任校长（vice-chancellor），1918 至 1938 年在任，正值学校建校与迁往格罗特舒尔之际，此后的校监包括 1936 年上任的扬·史末资将军、1967 年上任的哈里·奥本海默与 1999 年上任的 Graça Machel。

• Precious Moloi-Motsepe, a fashion entrepreneur and philanthropist, was elected chancellor in November 2019 and assumed the role on 1 January 2020 after the expiry of Graça Machel's second term, and Mosa Moshabela became the university's 11th vice-chancellor in 2024.时装企业家、慈善家 Precious Moloi-Motsepe 于 2019 年 11 月当选校监，在 Graça Machel 两届任期届满后于 2020 年 1 月 1 日就任，Mosa Moshabela 则于 2024 年成为学校第 11 任校长。

Academics

• The university is composed of six faculties, namely Commerce, Engineering and the Built Environment, Health Sciences, Law, Sciences and Humanities, which together comprise 57 departments offering bachelor's degrees at NQF 7 through to doctoral degrees at NQF 10, taught solely in the English language.学校设六个学院，即商学院、工程与建筑环境学院、健康科学学院、法学院、理学院与人文学院，合计 57 个学系，授予从学士（NQF 7）到博士（NQF 10）各级学位，全部以英语授课。

• The Faculty of Commerce, which has the highest student population, includes the College of Accounting, the School of Economics, the Department of Finance and Tax, the Department of Information Systems, the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, the School of Management Studies and the Graduate School of Business.商学院学生人数最多，下设会计学院、经济学院、财务与税务系、信息系统系、纳尔逊·曼德拉公共治理学院、管理研究学院与研究生商学院。

• The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment comprises the departments of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Economics and Management, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.工程与建筑环境学院设建筑规划与测绘系、化学工程系、土木工程系、建筑经济与管理系、电气工程系与机械工程系。

• The Faculty of Health Sciences runs thirteen departments covering medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry and mental health, public health and family medicine, pathology, anaesthesia and radiation medicine, among others.健康科学学院设十三个学系，涵盖内科、外科、妇产科、儿科、精神病与心理健康、公共卫生与家庭医学、病理学、麻醉与放射医学等方向。

• The Faculty of Humanities spans the most buildings of any faculty and includes African Studies and Linguistics with the Centre for African Studies, the Michaelis School of Fine Art, the South African College of Music founded in 1910 and the Centre for Film and Media Studies.人文学院占用的建筑为各学院之最，设非洲研究与语言学系（内含非洲研究中心）、Michaelis 美术学院、1910 年创立的南非音乐学院与电影媒体研究中心。

• The Faculty of Law, the smallest of the six, is organised in the departments of Commercial Law, Private Law and Public Law and is a member of the Law Schools Global League.法学院是六个学院中规模最小的，设商法、私法与公法三个系，并为全球法学院联盟成员。

• The Faculty of Science comprises twelve departments, among them archaeology, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, environmental and geographical science, geological sciences, mathematics and applied mathematics, molecular and cell biology, oceanography, physics and statistical sciences.理学院设十二个学系，包括考古学、天文学、化学、计算机科学、环境与地理科学、地质科学、数学与应用数学、分子与细胞生物学、海洋学、物理学与统计科学。

• The multidisciplinary Center for Higher Education Development ranks on an equal level as the faculties, while the School of Information Technology, comprising the departments of information systems and computer science, acts as a coordinating mechanism to promote IT education and research.多学科的高等教育发展中心与各学院同级，而由信息系统系与计算机科学系组成的信息技术学院则是协调信息技术教学与研究的机制。

• In 2016 the university enrolled 29,074 students, of whom 18,421 were undergraduates and 10,653 postgraduates, and employed 4,542 staff, including 1,179 academic staff and 3,363 professional, administrative, support and service staff.2016 年学校注册学生 29074 人，其中本科生 18421 人、研究生 10653 人，教职工 4542 人，含专任教师 1179 人与专业、行政、后勤等服务人员 3363 人。

• As of 2018 enrolment stood at 27,907 students, of whom 25 per cent were black South African, 22 per cent white South African, 18 per cent identified as another race and 15 per cent were international students.截至 2018 年，在校学生 27907 人，其中黑人南非人占 25%、白人南非人占 22%、其他族裔占 18%，国际学生占 15%。

• The university's endowment stands at 11.8 billion rand, of which the designated portion was 2.5 billion rand as of 2019, and in the 2017-2018 financial year it received 1.415 billion rand in state subsidies, 1.428 billion rand in tuition fees and 539 million rand in other income.学校捐赠基金达 118 亿兰特，其中 2019 年指定用途部分为 25 亿兰特，2017-2018 财年获政府拨款 14.15 亿兰特、学费收入 14.28 亿兰特、其他收入 5.39 亿兰特。

• Some 1.2 billion rand was committed to student financial aid for undergraduates and postgraduates in that year from the university, the government's NSFAS scheme and the university's partners and donors.同年，学校、政府 NSFAS 助学计划及合作伙伴与捐赠方共投入约 12 亿兰特用于本科生与研究生资助。

• The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library on the Upper Campus holds the majority of the university's collection of 1.3 million volumes.上校区的 Chancellor Oppenheimer 图书馆藏有全校 130 万册藏书中的大部分。

• As of 2019 the National Research Foundation rated 35 UCT researchers as A-rated, internationally recognised leaders who make up 30 per cent of the country's A-rated researchers, the highest number at any university, and 15 per cent of South Africa's NRF-rated researchers are employed or associated with UCT.截至 2019 年，南非国家研究基金会评定 35 名开普敦大学研究人员为 A 级，即国际公认的学科带头人，占全国 A 级学者的 30%，居全国高校之首，南非受 NRF 评级的研究人员中亦有 15% 受雇于本校或与本校相关。

• Eighty-eight faculty members are part of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, and 19 per cent of the country's research chairs are held by UCT-employed or associated researchers.88 名教师为南非科学院院士，全国研究讲席中 19% 由本校聘用或关联的研究人员担任。

• The Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine researches candidate tuberculosis and HIV vaccines, the Department of Physics hosts the UCT-CERN research centre that helped design the High Level Trigger software of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, and the Department of Electrical Engineering contributes to the Karoo Array Telescope, a precursor of the Square Kilometre Array.传染病与分子医学研究所研发结核与艾滋病候选疫苗，物理系设有开普敦大学-欧洲核子研究中心（CERN），参与大型强子对撞机 ALICE 实验高层触发软件的设计，电气工程系则参与建设平方公里阵的前身 Karoo 射电望远镜阵。

• The Department of Archaeology has found engraved ostrich eggshell water containers dated to 60,000 years ago, among the oldest evidence of art and abstract thought in the world, and the African Centre for Cities is one of the few research organisations focusing on urbanism in Africa.考古系发现了距今 6 万年的刻纹鸵鸟蛋壳容器，是世界上最古老的艺术与抽象思维证据之一，非洲城市中心则是非洲少数专注于城市问题研究的机构。

Campus

• The main teaching campus, known as Upper Campus, sits on the Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's Peak and houses the faculties of Science, Engineering, Commerce and Humanities, except the arts departments, together with the Smuts Hall and Fuller Hall residences.主要教学区称上校区（Upper Campus），位于魔鬼峰山麓的罗兹地产上，设理学院、工程学院、商学院与人文学院（艺术系除外）以及 Smuts Hall 与 Fuller Hall 两座宿舍。

• Upper Campus is centred on Sarah Baartman Hall, the venue for graduation and other ceremonial events, and the original buildings and layout of the campus were designed by JM Solomon and built between 1928 and 1930.上校区以 Sarah Baartman Hall 为中心，毕业典礼等仪式在此举行，校区首批建筑与总体布局由 JM Solomon 设计，1928 至 1930 年间建成。

• The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library holds most of the 1.3 million volumes, while the Jagger Library, which housed rare books and a large African Studies collection, was gutted by the Table Mountain fire of April 2021.Chancellor Oppenheimer 图书馆藏有 130 万册藏书的大部分，藏有珍本与大型非洲研究特藏的 Jagger 图书馆则在 2021 年 4 月的桌山山火中被焚毁。

• The Middle and Lower Campuses, spread through Rondebosch, Rosebank and Mowbray, contain the Law Faculty, the South African College of Music, the School of Economics, most of the student residences and most of the administrative offices, linked to the Upper Campus by the Japonica Walk.中部与下部校区分布于 Rondebosch、Rosebank 与 Mowbray，设有法学院、南非音乐学院、经济学院、多数学生宿舍与多数行政机构，经 Japonica 步道与上校区相连。

• The Faculty of Health Sciences occupies the Medical School campus next to Groote Schuur Hospital in Observatory, the Fine Arts and Drama departments sit on the Hiddingh Campus whose Egyptian Building was built in the Egyptian Revival style, and the Graduate School of Business is housed in the Breakwater Lodge at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront.健康科学学院设于 Observatory 格罗特舒尔医院旁的医学院校区，美术与戏剧系位于 Hiddingh 校区，其埃及大楼为埃及复兴风格，研究生商学院则设在维多利亚与阿尔弗雷德码头的 Breakwater Lodge。

• The Baxter Theatre Centre on the Lower Campus is the second largest performing arts complex in Cape Town, with a 665-seat Main Theatre, a 638-seat Concert Hall housing a Von Beckerath organ and the 172-seat Golden Arrow Studio.下部校区的 Baxter 剧院中心是开普敦第二大表演艺术综合体，设 665 座主剧场、638 座音乐厅（装有 Von Beckerath 管风琴）与 172 座的 Golden Arrow 工作室。

• The Woolsack on campus served as a refuge for writers and artists and was where Rudyard Kipling spent his summers between 1900 and 1908, and the Summer House Pavilion, built around 1760, is one of the oldest buildings in South Africa.校内 Woolsack 曾是作家与艺术家的避居地，吉卜林 1900 至 1908 年间的夏日在此度过，建于 1760 年左右的夏日亭则是南非最古老的建筑之一。

• The university has 19 student residences run on a three-tier system, and College House, established in 1887, is the oldest university residence in Africa, while Fuller Hall and Smuts Hall date from 1928 and Tugwell Hall from 1974.学校有 19 座学生宿舍，按三级体系管理，1887 年落成的 College House 是非洲最古老的大学宿舍，Fuller Hall 与 Smuts Hall 建于 1928 年，Tugwell Hall 建于 1974 年。

Reputation

• The University of Cape Town places 184th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 147th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.开普敦大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 184，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 147，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 201 至 300 区间。

• U.S. News ranked it 116th among global universities for 2024-2025.《美国新闻与世界报道》2024-2025 年度全球大学排名将开普敦大学列为第 116。

• It has ranked for many consecutive years as the top university not only in South Africa but across the continent of Africa, taking first place in the Times Higher Education Africa ranking of 2025 and the U.S. News Africa ranking of 2024-2025.开普敦大学连续多年位居南非乃至整个非洲高校之首，在泰晤士高等教育 2025 年非洲排名与《美国新闻与世界报道》2024-2025 年非洲排名中均列第一。

• OpenAlex records 227,804 works by the university that have drawn 8,303,442 citations.OpenAlex 收录开普敦大学论文 227804 篇，被引 8303442 次。

• Five alumni, staff members or researchers associated with UCT have won the Nobel Prize: Ralph Bunche, the 1950 peace laureate honoured for the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Max Theiler, the 1951 medicine laureate for the yellow fever vaccine, Allan McLeod Cormack, the 1979 medicine laureate for X-ray computed tomography, Aaron Klug, the 1982 chemistry laureate for crystallographic electron microscopy, and J. M. Coetzee, the 2003 literature laureate.与开普敦大学相关的校友、教师与研究人员中有五位诺贝尔奖得主：因 1949 年停战协定获 1950 年和平奖的 Ralph Bunche、因黄热病疫苗获 1951 年生理学或医学奖的 Max Theiler、因 X 射线计算机断层成像获 1979 年生理学或医学奖的 Allan McLeod Cormack、因晶体电子显微学获 1982 年化学奖的 Aaron Klug，以及 2003 年文学奖得主 J. M. Coetzee。

• In the 2026 QS World University Rankings UCT ranked first in the categories of academic reputation, employer reputation, sustainability and web impact.在 2026 年 QS 世界大学排名中，开普敦大学在学术声誉、雇主声誉、可持续性与网络影响四个维度均列第一。

• The faculties of Commerce, Law and Medicine have appeared in the top 100 faculties internationally, the Faculty of Law achieving 40th place in the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject.商学院、法学院与医学院均进入国际百强，其中法学院在 2014 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中位列第 40。

• According to a non-peer-reviewed study conducted by the Mail & Guardian in 2018, six per cent of the members of the Parliament of South Africa held a degree from UCT.据《Mail & Guardian》2018 年一项非同行评审研究，南非议会议员中 6% 拥有开普敦大学学位。

• UCT is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network, the International Alliance of Research Universities, the African Research Universities Alliance, the Association of African Universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Cape Higher Education Consortium, Higher Education South Africa and the International Association of Universities.开普敦大学是世界大学网络、国际研究型大学联盟、非洲研究型大学联盟、非洲大学协会、英联邦大学协会、开普高等教育联盟、南非高等教育协会与国际大学协会的成员。

Student life

• The university's motto is the Latin Spes Bona, meaning Good Hope.学校的校训为拉丁文「Spes Bona」，意为「美好希望」。

• The university colours are light blue, dark blue, black and white, the sports teams are known as the Ikeys with the Ikey Tiger as mascot, and the Ikey nickname originated in the 1910s as an antisemitic epithet applied to UCT students by the students of Stellenbosch University.学校代表色为浅蓝、深蓝、黑与白，校队别称 Ikeys，吉祥物为 Ikey Tiger，Ikey 这一绰号源于 1910 年代斯泰伦博斯大学学生针对本校学生所起的反犹蔑称。

• The rugby union team, the Ikey Tigers, counts Stellenbosch as its traditional opponent in an annual Intervarsity match.橄榄球队 Ikey Tigers 长年以斯泰伦博斯大学为传统对手，每年举行校际对抗赛。

• The University of Cape Town Football Club, known as the Ikeys Warriors, represents the university at tournaments such as Varsity Football, and the university had 36 different sports clubs in 2003.开普敦大学足球俱乐部别称 Ikeys Warriors，代表学校参加大学足球联赛等赛事，2003 年全校设有 36 个体育俱乐部。

• As of 2007 there were more than 80 student societies in five categories, the academic ones including the History and Current Affairs Society, the Space and Astronomy Society, the United Nations Association of South Africa and the Students for Law and Social Justice.截至 2007 年，全校有 80 余个学生社团，分学术、政治、宗教、民族文化与特殊兴趣五类，学术类社团包括历史与时事学会、太空与天文学会、南非联合国协会与法律和社会公正学生联合会。

• Student organisations such as SHAWCO, Ubunye and RAG are dedicated to the development of the communities surrounding the university in the Cape Metropolitan Area, and the Green Campus Initiative campaigns on environmental issues.SHAWCO、Ubunye 与 RAG 等学生组织致力于开普都会区周边社区的发展，绿色校园倡议则投身环保倡导。

• Fossil Free UCT, formally established in 2015 as a campaign by environmental activism groups and student organisations, resulted in a non-binding resolution passed by the university's Convocation in 2017 calling for divestment from fossil fuel companies.2015 年由环保团体与学生组织正式发起的「开普敦大学去化石燃料」运动，促成 2017 年校董大会通过要求剥离化石燃料投资的非约束性决议。

• The campuses have served as shooting locations for the Netflix series Blood & Water, in which the Upper Campus stood in for the fictional Parkhurst College, as well as for the films The Kissing Booth and Disgrace.校区还是影视取景地，Netflix 剧集《Blood & Water》以开普敦大学上校区充当虚构的 Parkhurst College，《The Kissing Booth》与《Disgrace》等电影亦在此拍摄。

Notable people

• Sir John Carruthers Beattie was the university's first vice-chancellor, serving from 1918 to 1938, the period in which the university was formally established and moved to Groote Schuur.Sir John Carruthers Beattie 是学校首任校长，1918 至 1938 年在任，正值学校正式建校并迁往格罗特舒尔之际。

• Paul Daniel Hahn, professor of chemistry, persuaded the college council in 1886 to admit four women on a trial basis, opening the institution to female students.化学教授保罗·丹尼尔·哈恩 1886 年说服学院校务委员会试招四名女生，为学校向女性敞开大门。

• Ralph Bunche, the American political scientist and diplomat, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his role in the 1949 Armistice Agreements.美国政治学家、外交家 Ralph Bunche 因在 1949 年停战协定中的作用获 1950 年诺贝尔和平奖。

• Max Theiler, a virologist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever.病毒学家 Max Theiler 因研发黄热病疫苗获 1951 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Allan McLeod Cormack, a physicist, shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on X-ray computed tomography.物理学家 Allan McLeod Cormack 因 X 射线计算机断层成像研究共享 1979 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Sir Aaron Klug, a chemist and biophysicist, was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for crystallographic electron microscopy and the structural elucidation of nucleic acid-protein complexes.化学家、生物物理学家 Aaron Klug 因晶体电子显微学及核酸-蛋白质复合物的结构解析获 1982 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• J. M. Coetzee, professor emeritus and novelist, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.名誉教授、小说家 J. M. Coetzee 获 2003 年诺贝尔文学奖。

• Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant, was both an alumnus and a member of the faculty.完成首例人类心脏移植手术的外科学家 Christiaan Barnard 既是本校校友，也曾在校任教。

• Mamphela Ramphele served as vice-chancellor from 1996 to 2000 and later as managing director of the World Bank.Mamphela Ramphele 1996 至 2000 年任本校校长，后出任世界银行常务董事。

• Mark Shuttleworth, the entrepreneur behind the Ubuntu operating system, is among the university's alumni.Ubuntu 操作系统背后的企业家 Mark Shuttleworth 是本校校友。

• Albie Sachs, the anti-apartheid activist who became a judge of the Constitutional Court, studied law at the university.反种族隔离活动家、后任宪法法院法官的 Albie Sachs 曾在本校研读法律。

• George Ellis, professor of applied mathematics, collaborated with Stephen Hawking and won the 2004 Templeton Prize.应用数学教授 George Ellis 曾与霍金合作，并获 2004 年坦普顿奖。

• Helen Zille, a former premier of the Western Cape, is among the university's alumni in public life.西开普省前省长 Helen Zille 是本校政界校友代表。

• Precious Moloi-Motsepe, chancellor since 2020, is a fashion entrepreneur and philanthropist.Precious Moloi-Motsepe 自 2020 年起任校监，身为时装企业家与慈善家。