​Finding the right biochemical tests to detect diabetes mellitus earlier can reduce the heavy burden of this disease on the healthcare system and local communities. Globally, diabetes is rising at an alarming rate due to the obesity...

​​​​In a first for Stellenbosch University, three of the institution's eminent female scientists made a clean sweep in the same category at the annual South African Women in Science Awards (WISA) ceremony in Polokwane on Thursday (23 August...

Stellenbosch University (SU), in partnership with LaunchLab and Innovus, held a successful first fintech-themed hackathon recently. According to Camille de Villiers, Technology Transfer Officer at Innovus, the judges were very impressed...

​​​The Transformation Office of Stellenbosch University (SU) and the SU Museum recently hosted Tiffany Caesar, a doctoral candidate from Michigan State University in the United States, as part of the Ubuntu Dialogues series and Women’s...

African mathematicians help drive innovation on the continent, but they don't always get the recognition they deserve. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Oluwole Makinde from the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Military...

​A landscape art project focusing on agriculture is taking shape in the Overberg in the Western Cape. This land installation art project consists of two giant circles that have been planted with wheat and canola. Each circle is 100 metres...

In the past two decades we have witnessed waves of xenophobic violence through which the distinction between South African citizens and non-citizens is brutally maintained, reinforced and patrolled, a boundary that separates those who have...

​​Military psychologists make a constructive contribution to the lives of soldiers and their families to protect our country and continent. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Gideon van Dyk from the Department of Industrial Psychology...

We have to recognise our debt to Nelson Mandela, said philosopher, political scientist and public intellectual Prof Achille Mbembe from the University of the Witwatersrand on Wednesday (18 July 2018). He was one of four experts who...

Dr Nicola de Jager, a senior lecturer in the Political Science Department, was recently selected as one of 13 African scholars to be awarded the prestigious Africa Oxford Initiative Fellowship (AfOx) from The University of Oxford. De Jager...