​During #lockdown, Matie alumnus and Capetonian Mia Esterhuyzen finds herself at the rhino sanctuary near Nelspruit where she has been volunteering nearly every single holiday since 2015. Esterhuyzen is one of the 169 students of the...

If sport doesn't contribute to a healthier nation, we must press the reset button and explore ways of doing things differently. Chief Director of Maties Sport, Ilhaam Groenewald, expressed this view during an online panel discussion hosted...

​Dear Colleagues The new set of circumstances resulting from the lock-down directive by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday evening has increased the complexity of Stellenbosch University’s Business Continuity objective.Further to the...

​​Campus Health Service would like to vaccinate as many staff and students as possible with the flu vaccine in 2020, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the need to maintain the health of all staff and students of SU. A flu shot won't...

​​​Prof Dirk Geeraerts, an internationally renowned cognitive linguist from KU Leuven University in Belgium who has played an important role in the expansion of this approach to linguistics, recently visited the Ancient Studies Department...

Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa and AzarGen Biotechnologies (Pty) Ltd, a South African biotechnology company focused on developing human therapeutic proteins using advanced genetic engineering and synthetic biology techniques...

27 March 2020 Dear SU CommunityWe have awakened this morning to a different country – characterised by limitation of movement and a suspension of the life that we have grown used to for the next three weeks. It naturally fills us with a...

​​​​SU's Rector and Vice-chancellor, Prof Wim de Villiers announced late last year that 2020 will be the university's Year for Persons with Disability. It will culminate in the sixth African Network for Evidence-to- Action in Disability...

Stellenbosch University (SU) doctoral candidate, Caroline Pule, has joined the frontlines in the fight against the COVID-19 virus which is already infecting hundreds of thousands of people globally. She recently joined as a volunteer for...

Prof Hans Strijdom, Head of the Division of Medical Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at Stellenbosch University, delivered his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 15 August 2023. The title of his talk was “The...