Matie alumna and businesswoman, Adéle Smith, advised students attending a recent Alumni Relation's Careers Café that if they wanted to make a success of their careers (and subsequently their life too) that they would need to make the...

Stellenbosch University's Fire Engineering Research Unit (FireSUN) has received a financial injection of R2.9 million that will be used to develop Africa's first-ever postgraduate programme in fire engineering - ultimately providing the...

Just over a decade ago, Prof Soraya Bardien was looking for a challenge. Her expertise in human genetics had already served as something of an academic passport to studying everything from an eye disease at the University of Cape Town, to...

​The article, South Africa is paying a heavy price for dysfunctional local government​, by Dirk Brand, Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, was published on 3 September 2018 in The...

More than 500 participants from 30 African and 19 international countries will converge at Stellenbosch University next week for one of the largest Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning teaching events in the world. The Deep...

​We need to pay more attention to the context of rural communities, if we wish to make a difference to the healthcare of people in these areas. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Ian Couper, Director of the Ukwanda Centre for Rural...

Elsabé Daneel is a well-known TV presenter, TV & movie actor and have produced and acted in many theatre productions. She is a producer, director and presenter of corporate videos as well as documentaries for kykNET and M-Net. As...

​The aims of the ECP regional symposium are to provide a forum for the promotion of criticality and innovation in theorising teaching and learning in ECP. The event featured keynote and special invited speakers whose practices are...

​​The replacement of natural fynbos vegetation with pine plantations in the southern Cape, and the subsequent invasion of surrounding land by invasive pine trees, significantly increased the severity of the 2017 Knysna wildfires. This is...

Maties boasts 'high quality' teaching in food science Alumni of Food Science attended a function held at the Department on 7 August 2018, where they had the chance to reflect on the past century through the eyes of Profs Wim de Villiers...