Heritage Day, celebrated annually on 24 September, gives South Africans an opportunity to rejoice and reminisce about our country's rich cultural heritage. At the Just Conversations event held at the Stellenbosch University (SU) Museum​...

​​​ Launched in 2020, the Africa Centre for Scholarship (ACS) Emerging Scholars Initiative (ESI) is a collaborative project that will see several multidisciplinary joint schools hosted with Stellenbosch University's partners from across the...

SU International's Global Education Centre (GEC) has piloted a new Stellenbosch University (SU) short course, Study Abroad for Global Learning (SAGL). The semester course, which commenced in January 2021, seeks to support students' global...

​From Khoekhoegowab to Igbo and Sepedi – these are only three of the low-resource languages in Africa that a group of over 400 volunteers from more than 20 African countries are targeting to address the lack of diversity in the field of...

​​Tuesday (27 April) was Freedom Day. In opinion pieces for the media, Prof Nico Koopman (Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel) and Dr Chris Jones (Unit for Moral Leadership) argue that it is difficult for...

The following article by Dieter von Fintel, Anja Smith, Francesca Marchetta and Martin Limbikani Mwale was published on 27 April 2021 by The Conversation. To read the original article, click here​. Smallholder agriculture is the backbone of...

Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) has launched a brand new outdoor gym on its Tygerberg Campus for staff and students to enjoy. The initiative, which was led by the FMHS' Dean's Advisory Committee on...

Africa Immunization Week – celebrated every year in the last week of April as part of World Immunization Week – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives every...

The fires that started on 18 April 2021 on the slopes of Table Mountain in South Africa destroyed several buildings on the campus of the University of Cape Town. These included the Jagger Library, as well as the restaurant at Rhodes...

In 2020, COVID-19 disrupted the internationalisation puzzle that all universities were busy piecing together. At first, many internationalisation practitioners were somehow at a loss when physical mobility was halted. Work from Home, in the...