The University of Cape Town (UCT) has lost 250 million rand ($15.2m) in donor funding after adopting two resolutions on Israel’s war on Gaza. Vice-Chancellor Mosa Moshabela disclosed the losses to Parliament in June, explaining that the Donald Gordon Foundation had withdrawn the remaining funding under a 200 million rand ($12.1m), 10-year commitment to a neuroscience institute. Other benefactors withheld another 50 million rand ($3m), including 15 million rand ($910,000) annually for bursaries.This blow lands in a country ranked by the World Bank as the world’s most unequal. UCT’s student debt exceeded one billion rand ($60.7m) by December 2025, while…

When Congress unanimously passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in 2003, lawmakers acknowledged something corrections professionals had long understood but rarely discussed publicly. Sexual abuse in prisons and jails was not an isolated problem. It was a systemic issue that demanded a national response.PREA…

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