A study, recently published by the top-tier journal, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has found strong evidence that country-level gender inequality (essentially women's status in society relative to men) is...

Beyers Naude Centre Colloquium on 13 February 2019 at the Faculty of Theology ​​​Humour, Emancipation and Reconciliation: A Critical Inquiry Professor Ola Sigurdson is professor of systematic theology at the Department of Literature...

​​​​​Transgression and transformation: the role of feminist, postcolonial and queer biblical interpretation in fostering communities of justice​ On March 13-15, 2019, the Gender Unit, Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology, in...

In May, Ms Malira Masoabi, a PhD student from the Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB), travelled to Hanover, Germany, to attend a Keystone conference on “Climate change-linked stress tolerance in plants". The event brought together...

​The unregulated harvesting of timber, bark and poles from indigenous forests in the Eastern Cape is having a negative impact on bird diversity in these vulnerable forests, a new study from Stellenbosch University shows. The Eastern Cape...

It has been a year since Prof Reggie Nel has become the dean of the Faculty of Theology (FT) at Stellenbosch University. What are the highlights of his first year as dean and what challenges would 2019 hold? “The biggest highlight of 2018...

​Push through, work hard, don't quit and enjoy! This was the advice of Maties Sport student athletes who graduated during Stellenbosch University's (SU) graduation ceremonies from 10-14 December. Although some of them found it difficult to...

A book edited and co-authored by Prof Ursula van Beek, the founder and Director of Transformation Research Unit (TRU) at the Political Science Department at Stellenbosch University, will now be made available to nine public universities in...

Dr Pierre Viviers and colleagues from the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM) won the prestigious David Sisk Award for Best International Paper for the official journal of the American Orthopaedic Association. Their paper...

This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article here . People are now living longer in sub-Saharan Africa than they did two decades ago. This is an achievement, given that life expectancy in the region went...