​The Siyakhula Diversity Development programme of Stellenbosch University (SU), now called the Siyakhula Live Series, will continue in the second semester with virtual webinar training sessions every Friday. Siyakhula, which means “we grow"...

​15 June 2020 Dear Student We are delighted that Stellenbosch University (SU) is able to invite some of our students back to campus. It may however be a prolonged process to have everyone back who would like to return. Under the national...

​​​​The author Elsa Joubert passed away on 14 June 2020 at the age of 97. The Department of Afrikaans and Dutch pays tribute to this alumna of Stellenbosch University. During the first half of June, South Africa lost two authors who both...

We'll have to rebuild a better, more balanced and more compassionate world once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, writes Prof Arnold Smit from the University of Stellenbosch Business School in an opinion piece for Fin 24 (16 June). Read the...

In celebration of Youth Day (16 June) and Youth Month, students Connor Bam (Humanities) and Tian Alberts (Law) write for Mail & Guardian and News24 respectively about some of the challenges young people face today. Click on the links below...

Stellenbosch University (SU) recently co-hosted an international conference with the theme, Art in Peace and Reconciliation: A Transnational Perspective, in collaboration with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) to explore...

A R2.2 million research grant from the British National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will bring Professor Quinette Louw one step closer to achieving universal health coverage for people with strokes. The grant, which will run over...

​​It takes a village to raise a child. Throughout his life, Elvin Hendricks filled his own village with inhabitants. Together with his own hard work, Elvin credits this group of people to the success that he has achieved. First of all...

Wood used for musical instrument needs to meet certain physical and acoustical properties and not all wood species are suitable as tonewoods. While guitars are often made from various (indigenous) wood species, violins worldwide are made...

​A new study, published in Nature this week, has found that the native biodiversity of natural forests largely buffers the severity of non-native tree invasions. The bad news, however, is that humans remain mostly responsible for...