​Dear Colleagues and Students ​The Dean’s Management Team is distressed by the current crisis with respect to good governance and accountability in our country. We would like to publicly express our grave concern about these matters and...

Each year, representatives from partner universities around the world gathers on campus for the Stellenbosch International Academic Networks (SIAN) meeting, focussing their attention on internationalisation at Stellenbosch University (SU)...

Students are kindly requested to be extra vigilant during recess periods as there are much less people or activities on campus. Unfortunately, statistics have shown that many cases of theft from student residences are reported at Campus...

Important Announcements regarding postgraduate funding

Several Maties cyclists recently conquered the ABSA Cape Epic stage race. Club chairperson Nicky Giliomee, a master's student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), completed her second Cape Epic...

​Our world is becoming increasingly complex and intolerant of social difference. Schools and especially teachers have a significant role to play in creating opportunities for children and adolescents to engage in dialogue and to affirm the...

​​​It is a debilitating brain disorder that significantly affects the quality of life of patients, their families and their caregivers alike. Parkinson's disease (PD) results from a gradual loss of nerve cells (neurons) that produce...

The business accelerator at Stellenbosch University (SU), LaunchLab, is giving entrepeneurs and aspiring innovators the opportunity to win a share of R50 000 in seed-funding for their ideas to tackle our water crisis.LaunchLab is running a...

The Vice-Rector: Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies, Prof Eugene Cloete, reported comprehensively to Senate about his responsibility centre in March 2017. What follows are selected highlights from the executive summary of Prof...

​Christian Bueger is Reader in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University. He worked as a Leverhulme Fellow at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, London (2011) and a research fellow...