​​The Ubuntu Learning Community (ULC) is creating an opportunity for incarcerated individuals to learn alongside Stellenbosch University (SU) students and academics. The ULC is South Africa's first prison-university partnership and is...

Matie alumna Roxanne Botman is pursuing further studies in the United Kingdom and hopes to one day become an industry leader in the education technology space. But in between her studies, Roxanne (daughter of former Stellenbosch University...

​​​​​​​​​​​In July 2019, Kirsten Wessels (4 th year food science student) and Michaela van den Honert (postdoctoral fellow at CFS) had the opportunity to visit Micreos in Wageningen, the Netherlands. They learnt all about bacteriophages and...

In July this year, 50 alumni sat down to dinner at Pielows Restaurant in Dublin with Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University, and the South African ambassador to Ireland, Her Excellency Ms Yolisa Maya...

Prof Deon de Bruin, a professor of Industrial Psychology at Stellenbosch University, delivered his inaugural lecture with the title Measurement in Industrial Psychology: Advances in theory and practice, on 19 August 2019. Prof De Bruin's...

The award-winning writer, editor, satirist and columnist, Ms Mariann Thamm, has called on the next generation to help uncover untruths. She delivered the eighth annual Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert (FVZS) Honorary Lecture at Stellenbosch...

​​​Stellenbosch University (SU) has a zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence, and is committed to creating an environment free of gender violence and advancing equal rights for all. This commitment is reinforced by the Equality...

Meet Johannes Gehrig and Hannes Hellwege, who are devoting some of their time to support the Stellenbosch University alumni network in Stuttgart and Berlin, respectively. 1. Tell us about yourself. What did you study and what are you doing...

The long road to Tzaneen On a Sunday morning, before sunrise, two busses were on their way from Stellenbosch to Bloemfontein, a long drive especially if the bus is limited to 100km/h! As the busses went from town to town, more were picked...

​​When final-year medical student Rosemary Pitsi was selected to attend the Global Engagement Summit in Illinois, in the United States earlier this year, she had no idea that what she learnt there would escalate her dream of starting a...