Program Overview

University of Cape Town Summer School Programs

The University of Cape Town offers a variety of summer school programs, including courses in literature, art, music, current affairs, history, philosophy, politics, economics, medicine, science, conservation, and nature.

Summer School 2026

The Summer School 2026 program includes special lectures, tours, excursions, and workshops. Some of the courses offered include:

• Literature, Art, Music
• Current affairs, history, philosophy, Politics, economics
• Medicine
• Science
• Conservation and Nature
• Information Technology
• Practical Courses

Course Details

Some of the specific courses offered in the Summer School 2026 program include:

• A tug of memory: 21 years in the Karoo
• Along Karoo roads: Faces, Places & Roadside Encounters
• Building a capable intelligence apparatus: a case study of the intelligence operation against Pagad.
• Cecil John Rhodes in love
• Challenges in land reform: a judicial perspective
• Clickbait, chaos and credibility: how too spot fake news
• Darker shade of pale
• Desmond Tutu – Prophet to Power, Pastor to the People, Healer of a Nation
• Developing South Africa's rural areas
• Has democracy run its course?
• Hiroshima: eighty years on
• In conversation humanball: performance through connection
• Mastering others languages: the difference it makes in South Africa
• Metro matters: local reporting and the 2026 Local elections
• Narrative capture: how disinformation builds the architecture of oppression
• Navigating geopolitcal complexity:How did South Afica's G20 stack up
• Navigating retirement
• Navigating the Trump global era
• Reflections on coalition government and national dialogue: thirty years ago and now
• Sand, sweat and satellite phones: reporting war in the 21st century
• South Africa in 2026: priorities for action
• South African Trappist missions: triumph and tragedy
• Straight out of Pretoria:The news freshly squeezed
• The 1930s: The decade that changed the world
• The Afrikaner Rebellion 1914
• The Battle of Spioenkop: personalities and outcomes
• The Shadow State: Why Babita Deokaran had to die
• The age of decay: Ageing, shrinking populations and the decline of civilisation
• The crimes they are changing: exploring South Africa's evolving criminal landscape
• The language of emojis: forensic and legal linguistics
• The truth about Cape slavery: Challenging historical distortions
• Tracking the triggers: inside South Africa's firearm controversies
• Tradewinds: The cosmopolitan Swahili world
• Understanding Africa-China relations
• Unlocking South Africa's socio-economic potential
• Vines, wines and political designs
• We can fix it together - solutions to fixing South African education in a post covid road map.

Speaker Details

Some of the speakers for the Summer School 2026 program include:

• Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, Centre for Development and Enterprise

Course Fees

The course fees for the Summer School 2026 program are R115, with a discounted fee of R58 for staff and students.

Recommended Reading

Recommended reading for the Summer School 2026 program includes:

• Bernstein, A. 2010. The Case for Business in Developing Economies. London: Penguin.
• AGENDA 2024: PRIORITIES FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S NEW GOVERNMENT.