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Valuable Innovation and Research contribution enabled through international collaboration
The internationalisation of higher education has become a formidable force for change in the past decade. Having long outgrown its baby shoes of mere development cooperation, cross-border education today involves high-impact partnerships...
Alumnus gives learners access to free online lessons
When schools across the country closed earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most parents were in a panic about the impact on their children's academic year. Luckily, Adrian Marnewick, an alumnus of the Stellenbosch University...
Presenting: A linguistic treasure trove
The Department of Afrikaans and Dutch presented copies of the new book Fritz Ponelis en die Afrikaanse taalwetenskap to Prof Fritz Ponelis's widow, Issie, and the Dean: Arts and Social Sciences, Prof Tony Leysens, on Thursday 17 August 2023...
COVID-19: Without communities, actions are doomed to fail
With the Western Cape now being in the lead with confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, the peaking community transmissions are concentrated in the poor and overcrowded townships in the Cape Town metropole. Mrs Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola, Director...
SU mourns passing of Prof Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel
Stellenbosch University mourns the passing of Prof Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel today (19 May 2020) following complications after surgery. Prof Plaatjies-Van Huffel was Professor in Ecclesiology in the Faculty of Theology. Prof Reggie...
Proper definition of national security crucial for free flow of information
A proper definition of national security is needed to protect our constitutional rights to access, receive and impart information, especially that which is in the public's interest. This is according to Dr Justin Ramages, a practicing...
Social media: think twice before sharing
Social media, amongst many other technological advances, is a 21 st century phenomenon. It has become integral in communicating and connecting people in ways that was before unimaginable. However, the freedom of access that social media...
Love for colleagues results in PhD
A love for the people she works with and a desire to see them making healthy choices to prevent and control chronic diseases, is what motivated Dr Darcelle Schouw to focus her PhD studies on running a workplace health promotion programme at...
SU, Radio KC searching together for energy solutions
True to its commitment to bring about social, cultural, environmental and economic development and change in communities, Stellenbosch University (SU) recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Radio KC, a leading community radio...
Disaster risk resilience network Periperi U steps up to help Africa fight COVID-19
Africa's population is the fastest-growing in the world. Over the next two decades, the continent will account for nearly half of global population growth. For this very reason, when disaster strikes on the continent, its effect on human...