The first week of January is a very stressful time for students who wrote the NSC examination the previous year. This is the same for the SciMathUS (Science and Maths at the University of Stellenbosch) students who also wrote NSC...

When it comes to the claims made about products in medicine, nutrition, economics and other areas, how do we establish what is true and what's not true? What can we trust and what can we not trust? This is the subject tackled recently by...

The following article Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola: 'My anger fed my activist's soul', written by Biénne Huisman, was published in the Daily Maverick on 2 December 2019: Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola believes fighting injustice is everyone's business...

As the primary method for freight transportation in South Africa, road freight (excluding passenger freight) emits approximately 16,8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, making it the second-largest contributor to carbon...

​A new European-African collaboration to improve the way infections in newborns are treated was launched recently. The project, SNIP-AFRICA, aims to reduce mortality among neonates in hospital with sepsis in Africa, in an era of increasing...

Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) staff were honoured as recipients of the Stellenbosch University's Chancellor's Award and its Teaching and Research Excellence Awards at separate award ceremonies in the City of Oaks...

“If you want to grow, embrace diversity. It is an indispensable component of excellence." With these words Stellenbosch University's Vice-Rector: Learning & Teaching, Prof Arnold Schoonwinkel, welcomed SU's more than 5 000 newcomer students...

Excellent news for the Faculty's students is that the first phase of the CGW Schumann Building Renewal Project – the upgrading of three undergraduate lecture halls on the ground floor by Stellenbosch University's Facilities Management...

​​Intensive-care specialists at Tygerberg Hospital have a new infection-resistant 'colleague' helping them do ward rounds on Covid-19 patients. “Quintin" – as 'he' is affectionately called – is a Double Robotic 'robot' that has been...

Moeletsi Mbeki, the outspoken scholar, journalist, political economist and analyst, is not one to beat around the bush when it comes to a key social issues affecting South African citizens today. At a recent 2024 Pre-Elections Business...