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Use Heart for Every Heart: World Heart Day 2022
Throughout social distancing and lockdown regulations, many people became isolated. Have you ever been lonely while in a crowd? September is heart awareness month and the theme from the World Heart Federation for World Heart Day on 29...
Climate change affects people’s health in many ways
Climate change continues to pose a major threat to the health of many communities, especially the most vulnerable, around the world. This was the view expressed by Prof Bob Mash from the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine at...
We inherited a promise to build an equal, inclusive country
Heritage Day was celebrated on Saturday 24 September. In opinion pieces for the media, Prof Nico Koopman (Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel) and Dr Chris Jones (Department of Systematic Theology and...
Investment in ICT key for inclusive economic growth, development in Africa
Investment in information, communication, and technology (ICT) infrastructure is key for sustained inclusive economic growth and development in Africa. This is according to a study conducted by Dr Mamello Nchake from the Department of...
Does hosting mega sport events bring benefits?
The article Hosting the FIFA World Cup brings benefits. But not as many as politicians claim by Professors Johan Fourie and Maria Santana Gallego was first published in The Conversation on 22 September 2022: The World Cup kicks off on 20...
Join us for Giving Day 2022
Stellenbosch University (SU) is set to host its third annual Giving Day from 6 to 7 October and is challenging alumni, students, staff and friends of the University to get involved. The cause? To help Matie students overcome the many...
Deaf storytellers help Stellenbosch University to create teaching material
A social impact project by Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Deaf community to advance literature in sign language and address the plight of deaf communities with limited work and training opportunities was recently completed. The...
We must break down prejudice against sign languages
September is International Deaf Awareness Month. In an opinion piece for the Mail & Guardian, Susan Njeyiyana from the Department of General Linguistics writes that we must do more to break down the prejudice against sign languages. Read...
Dave Pepler talks to specialists about hallucinogens, soil microbes and ancient star galaxies
Hallucinogens, soil microbes and ancient star galaxies are some of the topics that the well-known nature lover Dave Pepler will tackle during this year's Stellenbosch Science Cafés. Since Science Café Stellenbosch was presented for the...
Stellenbosch theoretical physicist honoured with SAIP Gold Medal
In his career as a theoretical physicist, Prof Hendrik Geyer has always put up his hand for the big problems in physics – from developing a mathematical framework in the 1990s that has become fundamental to the building of quantum...