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Students: Revised 2020 academic calendar and online connectivity
8 April 2020 Dear Student This communication contains important information about adjustments to the 2020 academic year to accommodate the period of national lockdown. There has been a number of communiqués, the latest from the...
Staff: Online teaching in term 2 and revised academic calendar
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...
Shofar church donates food to students
Driven by their passion and love for people, members of the Shofar Christian Church in Stellenbosch distributed over 750 food parcels to Stellenbosch University (SU) students remaining at residences during the lockdown period. “Our...
Communication from Council (meeting of 6 April 2020)
The Council of Stellenbosch University (SU) held its first meeting for 2020 on Monday 6 April. In a first for Council, the meeting was conducted virtually on an online collaboration platform allowing for videoconferencing. This was in...
What does life after lockdown look like for business?
Guest lecturer in corporate and development finance at the University of Stellenbosch B usiness School (USB) , Jason Hamilton, forecasts the impact the current 21-day nationwide lockdown will have on South African industry. The global...
Tough choices about who gets ICU access: the ethical principles guiding South Africa
This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article here . Just weeks after confirming the first case of COVID-19 in South Africa, the government ordered a lockdown in an attempt to flatten the curve of...
SU interactive campus map a first for its kind
If you find yourself always asking for directions, or struggle to navigate your way around the many buildings at Stellenbosch University (SU), then the new interactive campus map is just the thing you need. A team from Facilities Management...
SU researcher helping to make winery wastewater more sustainable
With the ongoing water shortages in the Western Cape, and the likelihood of droughts becoming a much more common occurrence as global warming increases, more researchers are trying to find new and innovative ways for resource recovery and...
Conservation agriculture can boost maize yields
Maize farmers who aim to practise no-tillage or conservation agriculture on their farms will benefit from considerably higher yields during dry seasons since these farming methods allow them to plant crops considerably closer together. So...
Researcher receives doctorate about cheese-making
Farmers with a few cows and the necessary space available could for around R24 000 start their own artisan cheesemaking business. So says Dr Faith Nyamakwere of the Department of Animal Sciences at Stellenbosch University. She recently...