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Awards and milestones
VALIDATE Network celebrates major milestone with 1000th member
Institutional news
SU secures leading positions in 2025 Shanghai Subject Rankings
If you are interested in studying Food Science & Technology, Biotechnology, Communication, Biological Sciences or Agricultural Sciences in South Africa, look no...
Opinion and features
World Children’s Day: Spotlight falls on key challenges
Africa’s climate-displaced children, combatting violence against children, and treating cerebral palsy in children. These are the topics that Stellenbosch...
Opinion and features
World Diabetes Day: Workplaces, community-oriented primary care can curb diabetes
World Diabetes Day was observed on 14 November. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences argue that well-designed...
Medicine and health
Tygerberg-SU surgeons first to perform novel limb reconstruction in South Africa
A team of orthopaedic surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital recently achieved a South African first when they performed an innovative limb reconstruction surgery that...
Institutional news
Infectious disease specialist appointed BMRI director
The internationally renowned infectious disease specialist Prof Jean B Nachega has been appointed Full Professor of Infectious Diseases and part-time Director...
Media release
Urgent action needed to support children with intellectual and developmental disabilities
In South Africa, thousands of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are being left behind because they are not identified early enough to...