Awards and milestones
Department of Modern Foreign Languages hosts prestigious 2025 Naspers Chinese Language Awards
The Department of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) held its annual Naspers Awards Ceremony on 13 November at...
Awards and milestones
Prof Lindy Heinecken receives the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award for her stellar career in military fraternity
- What does this award mean to an outstanding academic and professional in the military fraternity?
Receiving the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award is a...
Campus life
New thinking in Faculty about SU’s past and future
By Desmond Thompson
When a study on “Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Coloured South African women” was published in 2019, it...
Awards and milestones
The University of Venda appoints Stellenbosch University alumnus Professor Fulufhelo (Fulu) Netswera as Vice Chancellor Research and Postgraduate Studies
Fulufhelo is a Development Sociology graduate of 2005 at Stellenbosch University. He says that his doctoral experience at Stellenbosch under the supervision of...
Arts, languages and social sciences
UN Expert Panel co-chaired by Crest, Dr Heide Hackmann releases latest report on Climate and SDG’s synergies
On 24-25 September 2025, the Third Global Report on Climate and SDG Synergies (2025), prepared by the Expert Group including our very own Crest, Dr Heide...
Institutional news
Public Squares bring spaces between academic disciplines to life
Stellenbosch University (SU) has set itself an ambitious goal: to be “Africa’s leading research-intensive university, globally recognised as excellent...
Media release
Press Freedom celebration calls for moment of reflection
Maintaining audience trust and building relationships are key to the continued resilience of journalism in the face of sustained threats.
This was one of the...
Media release
Journalism alumni awarded SA Akademiepryse
Two alumni of the Department of Journalism are winners of the prestigious Academy Awards for 2026.
On 22 April, the South African Academy of Science and Arts...
Opinion and features
Rethinking our freedom in a time of climate crisis
South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on 27 April. In an opinion piece for the Cape Argus, Dr Gibson Ncube from the Department of Modern Foreign Languages draws...
Opinion and features
Multilingualism breaks down language barriers
Mother-tongue instruction and learner success, investment in African languages, the voices of young people in multilingual education, and English dominating the...
Institutional news
SU leads continent in research output, new QS ranking shows
If the inaugural QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings (WUR): Sub-Saharan Africa is anything to go by, Stellenbosch University (SU) is well on its...
Arts, languages and social sciences
CINIA convenes IDRC partner’s summit to strengthen information integrity in the Global South
The challenge of building an inclusive, just, equitable, enabling and safe information ecosystem was the focus of a recent week-long planning workshop in...