​​​Stellenbosch University (SU) is part of a large international research trial testing one of the most promising Covid-19 vaccine candidates currently available. This vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) was developed by Oxford University in the...

Most people know that you can get rabies from a dog bite. But what about it is so scary and why are we so fearful about getting rabies? Are there other ways you can get the infection? Rabies is a fatal viral infection that damages the brain...

So, I think it's safe to assume that almost all of us at one stage or another have woken up, tried to move and been like, “What the heck have I done?" As we lie there willing our aching muscles to move, we try and figure out what activity...

​​SU Teaching Fellowship 2021 Teaching fellowships were initiated at Stellenbosch University (SU) in 2009 with the aim of, inter alia, providing an opportunity for selected academics to develop their teaching expertise and stimulating the...

​​​​Cancer remains a formidable adversary that afflicts all communities without discrimination or boundaries. It impacts the lives of millions, making it a major, increasing public health problem worldwide. The year 2020 is the second of...

​In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors at Tygerberg Hospital implemented a daring, lesser-known treatment that not only bypassed the imminent ventilator shortage caused by the large number of critically ill patients, but...

​​SoTL Virtual Conference 2020: Giving and receiving care should be at the heart of our efforts to create an institutional landscape of care “At SU, thanks to your complete dedication and hard work on the academic project, we stopped...

Prof Thuli Madonsela, Chair in Social Justice at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Law, is taking action to raise funds for students from working class and middle-class income households who are struggling to keep their higher education...

​Following recent discussions between the Stellenbosch University (SU) management, student leadership and supporting Huis Marais (HM) alumni, an agreement was reached that the residence will remain home to only male students in 2021. The...

​Moisturisers can help to prevent hand eczema caused by some hand sanitisers, write Suretha ​Kannenberg, Sergio Alves & Allison Arendse (Division of Dermatology) in a recent opinion piece for Health24. Read the article below or click here...