​Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University ​ 6 September 2019 Dear Colleagues and Students Gender-based violence: Enough is indeed enough Although I am currently travelling on university business, I have...

​Political commentator Max du Preez and Judge Albie Sachs will be the keynote speakers at the first Anton Lubowski Memorial Lecture to be held at the Stellenbosch University (SU) Faculty of Law on the 30th anniversary of his death. This...

A new state-of-the-art nuclear medicine imaging unit, which is expected to reap big benefits for research, particularly into tuberculosis (TB), is currently under development at Stellenbosch University. The Node for Infection Imaging (NII)...

The acclaimed Stellenbosch University Choir will give a special performance in Pretoria on Monday 23 September and on 24 September in Soweto as part of the University's Heritage Day celebrations. The SU Choir has an outstanding performance...

​​A first-of-its-kind training project between the Department of Business Management and Italtile culminated in seven students being offered internships with the company and one of the seven, Dannika Essl, being named as the overall winner...

​An article published by two colleagues at the Centre for Health Professions Education (CHPE) in the Medical Education, earned them the Henry Walton Award. That means that the particular article was só popular that during 2018 it was the...

​​The phenomenon of using photo storybooks ( fotonovelas) to address health issues in South Africa has shown significant promise and thanks to a grant he received from the Division of Social Impact at Stellenbosch University (SU), Dr Burt...

The first week of September marks Kidney Awareness Week in South Africa and it highlights the need to have one's kidney functions checked early before chronic kidney disease sets in. Kidney disease can kill. Ten thousand South African, men...

​​​​​Firebrand. Art lover. Traveller. These are the three words that friends recently sponsored as a birthday gift for political scientist Prof Amanda Gouws. There's a host others that one could choose to describe her by too: Feminist...

​​The scars of childhood trauma run much deeper than the actual abuse or neglect experienced by the child. Studies have revealed that they can have a lifelong effect on brain functioning. Now researchers at SU's Department of Psychiatry are...