​With its unique approach and dedicated team of healthcare workers, the new stroke unit at Tygerberg Hospital is already making great strides in helping to address South Africa's stroke burden. Research indicates that dedicated care units...

A firm grasp of key philosophical concepts is important for prospective teachers if they wish to help address pedagogical and societal challenges in their specific contexts. This is one of the key messages of a new book by Dr Nuraan Davids...

A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies ( Haemanthus pumilio) in the Duthie Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch, as well as increase the population through micropropagation. Martin Smit, curator...

​South Africa's healthcare system is in the midst of multiple changes. It has to expand access in a skewed system that has historically favoured urban over rural and wealthy over poor, while simultaneously transforming from a hospital- and...

Prof Juliana Claassens, Chair of the Department Old and New Testament at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Theology, aims to “give a voice to women who have struggled throughout biblical times against persecution" in her book Claiming...

A Matie, a Southern Sting and now a Baby Protea. Goalkeeper Stephanie Brandt (21), who has represented Maties on the netball court since her first year in 2015, will represent South Africa at the Netball World Youth Cup in Botswana from 8...

​​While mobile platforms are becoming an increasingly common medical and public health tool, few evaluations of their effectiveness exist. A new joint doctoral thesis from the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Sweden and Stellenbosch University...

​​After a whirlwind start to the year and only four months after being formed, the Maties Cheerleading squad came second in the Tertiary All Girl category at the SAMCA's national competition in Durban this past weekend. The squad...

​​A team of South African computer science and engineering students has won second prize in the International Student Cluster Competition (ISCC), held at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, in June. Philip...

A phoenix rising from the ashes. This is how Prof Johan Malan, acting dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University, described the new and improved Van der Sterr complex at a function celebrating its...