​While much of the scientific and medical community rushes to develop therapeutic agents for COVID-19 based on clinical data, getting a better understanding of the brand-new virus remains crucial. That's why it's so important that South...

11 May 2020 Dear Students This week we are grateful to report back on good news, specifically related to your connectivity and online learning platform. Management, academic staff and our professional and administrative support divisions...

​​​11 May 2020 Dear Colleagues We trust that you are all doing well as we enter the second week of our level 4 risk adjusted lockdown. Perhaps many of you have been enjoying an early morning escape though only few of us will enjoy Victoria...

​The article, Poverty rises, inequality shifts as Covid-19 impact continues unabated, by Prof Servaas van der Berg, was published on 10 May 2020 by News24. Read the complete article below or click here​ for the piece as published. Many have...

As Stellenbosch University (SU) becomes accustomed to the 'new normal' of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SU Language Centre has been hard at work to provide students and staff with ongoing virtual language support. Even before the pandemic...

​​Stellenbosch University's (SU's) vision to be Africa's leading research-intensive university is supported by being counted among the top higher education institutions globally when it comes to research outputs, particularly articles...

​Children are also affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In an article for The Conversation (7 May), Dr Marina Joubert from the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology writes about how different comics and cartoons can help...

As South Africa considers reopening schools amid the COVID-19 crisis, a policy brief authored by Dr Nic Spaull of the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University (SU) argues that by allowing the youngest children to go back first...

​In an effort to keep pace with the changing needs in the workplace, Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences have announced that it will be offering two new programmes to students in 2021. The programmes – a B...

​​​Title of presentation: Implementing multilingualism in South African universities: dilemmas and innovations Title and name of presenter: Prof Mbulungeni Madiba, Dean: Faculty of Education​Short biography of presenter: Prof Mbulungeni...