ABSTRACT
The University of Cape Town, always UCT to all who know it, nestles on the slopes of Table Mountain with panoramic views of the city below. Its location is breath-taking, in what was once the Groote Schuur Estate, literally the ‘Great Barn’, that provided sustenance for the earliest settlers in the 17th century. In later years it was to be permanently reserved for the South African nation by Cecil Rhodes and the university came to occupy this most majestic of sites by a number of rather circuitous routes.
