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chinese awards 2025

Awards and milestones

Department of Modern Foreign Languages hosts prestigious 2025 Naspers Chinese Language Awards

The Department of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) held its annual Naspers Awards Ceremony on 13 November at...

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Prof Lindy Heinecken

Awards and milestones

Prof Lindy Heinecken receives the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award for her stellar career in military fraternity

Prof Lindy Heinecken
Image by: Prof Lindy Heinecken

Caption: Sociology and Social Anthropology Senior Lecturer Prof Lindy Heinecken and Associate Prof Alan Okros, Deputy Director of Research in the Dallaire...

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Anell Daries & Jesse Le Roux

Campus life

New thinking in Faculty about SU’s past and future

By Desmond Thompson

When a study on “Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Coloured South African women” was published in 2019, it...

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fulu

Awards and milestones

The University of Venda appoints Stellenbosch University alumnus Professor Fulufhelo (Fulu) Netswera as Vice Chancellor Research and Postgraduate Studies

Fulufhelo is a Development Sociology graduate of 2005 at Stellenbosch University. He says that his doctoral experience at Stellenbosch under the supervision of...

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Heide Hackmann

Arts, languages and social sciences

UN Expert Panel co-chaired by Crest, Dr Heide Hackmann releases latest report on Climate and SDG’s synergies

On 24-25 September 2025, the Third Global Report on Climate and SDG Synergies (2025), prepared by the Expert Group including our very own Crest, Dr Heide...

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SAYAS awards

Awards and milestones

Two young SU scientists recognised for excellence in their respective fields

Two scientists from Stellenbosch University (SU) have been inaugurated as members of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS). 

Dr Phila Msimang and Dr...

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