Old age is supposed to be a worry-free time when you can sit back and enjoy your twilight years. Unfortunately, this isn't the case for many elderly South Africans above 60 who are more likely to suffer from, amongst others, disease, trauma...

Marine science research in South Africa has received a major boost after the signing of a high-level agreement between South Africa, Brazil and the European Union for technical cooperation in the study of the Atlantic ocean spanning from...

​​Stellenbosch University is among five African institutions to benefit from a grant of nearly R102 million (£6 million) from the United Kingdom's Global Challenges Research Fund to tackle infectious diseases in their home countries in...

​Respect and dignity. These two words emerge frequently when interviewing the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science's (FHMS) newly appointed Manager: Student Affairs. In her new position Ms Khairoonisa Foflonker will have to, among others...

​​​Professor Homi Bhabha ( Bio), the world’s premier post-colonial literary theorist and Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, will visit Stellenbosch University next week. On Tuesday 15 August,​ Prof Bhaba will...

​After obtaining her doctorate in 2004, Prof Nox Makunga of the Department of Botany and Zoology joined Stellenbosch University (SU) in 2005 and quickly established herself as a leading researcher on South Africa's medicinal plants. She has...

Researchers from across the world recently gathered in Cape Town to share knowledge about and discuss “sense-making" in mathematics teaching and learning, applied problem-solving (modelling), and the way in which mathematical models and...

​The Telematic Schools Project is a joint initiative of the Western Cape Education Department and Stellenbosch University to implement education through technology. The project started in 2009 as a pilot in 10 schools with five subjects and...

The rapid detection of honey fraud; the role of women in the military; the link between heart disease and mental health; career development for township youth; the use of dragonflies to monitor the health of water sources; and ways in which...

​After excellent outputs over the past 10 years – especially with regard to the number of doctoral students it produced – the Chair in the Economics of Social Policy​​ has been renewed. The chair, which is held by Professor Servaas van der...