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Mandela Day 2017: Comfort packs and Food items for students
We aim to collect non-perishable food items and toiletries for students who are in dire need. As part of Mandela Day celebrations, we would like encourage all fellow students, residences, PSO and student societies to donate toiletries...
Safety guidelines for SU staff during the coming recess
Staff are kindly requested to be extra vigilant by taking note of suspicious people entering campus buildings or attempting to gain access with personnel into buildings during recess. Please take note of the following tips: Keep your...
Leading the way in algorithm improvements in software
At the Information Science Department in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), a group consisting of computing and information scientists and engineers are leading the way in algorithm improvements in...
Robins memoir one of five on Sunday Times Alan Paton Award shortlist
Social anthropologist and Stellenbosch University academic Prof Steven Robins' memoir, Letters of Stone, has been nominated as one of five books to make the Sunday Times shortlist for the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction for 2017. The award...
ABSA invests R5m in a Scholarship Programme for Maties in 2017
A generous investment of R5 million from Absa Bank into a Scholarship Programme at Stellenbosch University (SU) is set to benefit talented and deserving students in need of bursaries in 2017. At a cheque handover ceremony on the...
Tolerance crucial in a democracy
Should we tolerate everything people say or do? Does tolerance imply that we have to accept or tolerate things with which we disagree profoundly? Are there limits to the controversies that we are prepared to tolerate? These were some of the...
SU to set up an institution-wide RapeCulture monitoring function
Stellenbosch University (SU) will be setting up a permanent mechanism to monitor RapeCulture and gender violence on its campuses. Monitoring activities will include an annual climate survey to compile a RapeCulture report, which will be...
CP is the best in horticulture
CP van der Merwe has been named as the recipient of the HORTGRO Science/Daan Strydom Award as the best student in horticultural science at Stellenbosch University. In 2015, at the end of his third year of study, CP also received the Ballie...
Dr Leslie van Rooi appointed as Senior Director: Social Impact and Transformation
Dr Leslie van Rooi, Head of the Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Institute for Student Leadership (FVZS Institute) at Stellenbosch University (SU), was recently appointed as Senior Director: Social Impact and Transformation. He will assume his...
Communication from Council (meeting of 19 June 2017)
The year's second scheduled meeting of the Stellenbosch University (SU) Council took place on 19 June 2017. Matters discussed included campus security, the appointment of deans, the name change of SU's main library, the report by the End...