​​​A decision by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to investigate the possibility of commercialising access to satellite data used by conservation agencies may negatively affect conservation efforts across the world, in particular...

The Library and Information Service at Stellenbosch University (SU) launched its Centenary Exhibition on the Stellenbosch campus on Friday (27 July 2018). Offering a pictorial glimpse of SU's past and present, the exhibition focuses on the...

​​In the run up to Women's month Stellenbosch University (SU) wishes to express its solidarity with women and men across our country that will be participating in the campaign Against Gender-based Violence. “We appeal to all Maties – staff...

Former South African president Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." Helga Sykstus and Arné Binneman hope to...

When Gerben Draaijer – recipient of the 2018 CGW Schumann Medal for the best postgraduate student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences – had to decide what he wanted to study, he knew it “had to be something to do with numbers...

The University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) recently launched its new online platform, USB Management Review, which features business knowledge articles based on the research conducted by faculty, students, and research centres...

​The end of July 2018 – the month in which Nelson Mandela's life was honoured through many social impact activities of Stellenbosch University (SU) – does not signal the end of the University's initiatives to make a difference in the lives...

​​The problem of primary school learners who can't read should be declared a national crisis and requires not only to be a national priority but also significant resources. This was one of the viewpoints of Dr Nic Spaull from the research...

​​​Horrific incidences of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment are so common in South Africa that it has been dubbed the “ rape capital of the world". Yet these issues have been curiously neglected in the country's politics. In South...

​​The social impact project “Overcoming Career Circumscription and Compromise" – which offered career guidance to Grade 9 learners in communities with little to no resources – is so crucial that efforts must be redoubled to ensure the...