The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences has broken through the 100 degrees ceiling with the awarding of another 14 degrees at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' graduation on Thursday, 22 March. This takes the overall number...

When hearing impaired student Celize Louw stood up to receive her Master's degree in Physiotherapy, it marked the end of a long and sometimes arduous long-distance journey of study. For Louw (43), this achievement is proof that hard work...

​​Two great-granddaughters of one of Stellenbosch University's pioneers received their doctoral degrees together during the institution's April graduation ceremonies. They are oenologist Dr Jeanne Brand and clinical psychologist Dr Derine...

​​​What is the appropriate response to the echoes of historical wounding that extend far beyond the generation that experienced the trauma directly? What strategies might quell the haunting repercussions of genocide, slavery, colonial...

“The power of changing the country is in the hands of the citizens. We are the government. We voted them in and can vote them out." This was one of the inspiring messages in the acceptance speech of the internationally acclaimed actor and...

​25 May 2020Dear StudentOver the past eight weeks we as Stellenbosch University community have experienced first-hand how our daily activities have been transferred to the virtual world, a reality that will invariably become a feature of...

Final-year medical student, Azhar Adam Nadkar, has been elected by a global association for medical education to coordinate the student participation in a major conference later this year. Nadkar was recognised last year by the rector of...

​8 April 2020  Dear Colleagues   With your support we have made good progress towards taking our learning and teaching, as well as assessments, online from 20 April 2020. I would like to share with you some of the decisions taken by the...

​A physiotherapy graduate from 2012 has been selected as one of the Mail & Guardian newspaper's Top 200 South Africans for 2021, an honour which has led to him paying warm tribute to his lecturers and mentors at the Faculty of Medicine and...

​​Justice Edwin Cameron, former Constitutional Court judge, was formally installed as Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU) on Wednesday 18 May. The ceremony was held at the Kruiskerk on the University's Stellenbosch campus, and was...