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Justine looks toward Tokyo 2020
“I'm sad that I won't compete at a Varsity Athletics meet again. I've watched the competition develop over the past few years and it was a good experience. Now it's time for younger athletes to make their mark," she says. Justine Palframan...
SU’s Akile Khoza competes for Miss SA crown
Twenty-three-year old Master's student in Neuroscience at Stellenbosch University (SU), Akile Khoza is one of the top 12 finalists in the annual Miss South Africa pageant to be held on Sunday (27 May 2018) The Mpumalanga brainy beauty will...
SU Museum hosts a conversation on the role of struggle songs
“Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika" (Lord Bless Africa), “Ndodemnyama" (Beware, Verwoerd!) and “Sikakela Izwe Lakithi" (We Protest for Our Land) are but a few iconic struggle songs that have been sung during the fight against apartheid in South Africa...
SU academics sharpen their science voices at Conversation workshop
Thirty Stellenbosch academics, all keen to sharpen their popular science writing skills, participated in a workshop hosted at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) on 22 May 2018. Two members of the editorial...
Afrikaans Department hosts international conferences focused on translation and interpreting
Two international conferences focused on interpreting and translation studies are being hosted by the Afrikaans and Dutch Department by the Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT4) organisation from 22 to 24 May 2018 and the...
FMHS opens a 'library of the future'
“It feels like a space full of success stories waiting to happen. Thank you for creating it for us." This comment about the new Medicine and Health Sciences library was made by a Stellenbosch University student and retold by Ilana van...
Inaugural Africa Day Lecture: Social cohesion in South Africa is possible
“By the time a black and a white South African at the age of 18 come to the university, they are already messed up in their heads. Depending on which schools they went to; the homes they grew up in; the churches, mosque or synagogues they...
Maties HP appoints Sport Technology and Training Innovations Manager
The aim is to address the growing need in the tertiary sport environment to find innovative ways to maximise the training potential of student-athletes who are students first and athletes second. Grant van Velden, who has been working...
Working to change the world
“So what do you actually DO during all the hours when you're not lecturing? Surely you have a nice easy job? If I had a penny for each time that somebody asked me this question, I wouldn't be worried about the need for a job," says Dr Neill...
Workshop on modelling South Africa’s future power system
“Coordinated research on the modelling of future power systems within the context of increasing renewable energy penetration is critically important", according to Dr Bernard Bekker, Eskom Chair in Power System Simulation at the Department...