The debate about mandatory vaccines has reached fever pitch as efforts to contain Covid-19 accelerate. Compelling scientific, ethical and legal arguments have been advanced around whether or not people should be forced to be vaccinated...

​​​Although 17-year-old Kimberley Lucas from Wentworth, KwaZulu-Natal, achieved four distinctions in Grade 12 last year, including 99% for maths, she had not applied to any university. That, she believed, was meant for rich people only...

​​​The eco-friendly SharkSafe Barrier TM technology, developed by marine biologists at Stellenbosch University (SU) and their collaborators, and manufactured in the Western Cape, South Africa, has now been installed at a private island in...

Prof Bert Klumperman from Stellenbosch University's Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science has been awarded a grant of R18 million by the Wellcome Trust to develop next-generation polymers for the successful isolation of membrane...

Professor Wolfgang Preiser, head of the Division of Medical Virology at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), was recently profiled in the prestigious journal , The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The article...

​​To elephant expert Dr Katharina von Dürckheim, being in the bush is her “true north". She has pursued this passion as a wildlife scientist, wildlife editor and in working for NGOs. Through postgraduate research she has delved into...

​The Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University (SU) recently received international acclaim when its work on identifying and tracking Covid-19 variants was listed as one of the 10 technological...

Wednesday (3 March) is World Wildlife Day. In an opinion piece for Daily Maverick, Deborah Vorhies and Francis Vorhies (African Wildlife Economy Institute) focus on why the United Nations promotes the sustainable use of endangered species...

VER[r]AS, the student society of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, launched the 2021 edition of Penseel on Wednesday 2 March. Twenty eight poets and short-story authors have been included in this volume. Selection for the 2021 edition...

​Economics students Tiaan de Swardt and Ryan Young continued the tradition of excellence at Stellenbosch University (SU) when they were awarded top prizes in the 50 th edition of the Nedbank and Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition held in...