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Don’t take good-quality drinking water for granted
Sunday (22 March) was World Water Day. In an opinion piece for News24, Gideon Wolfaardt and Marlene de Witt of the Stellenbosch University Water Institute call on all South Africans not to take good-quality drinking water for granted. Read...
Brushing shoulders with Nobel Laureates
Dr Nabila Ismail is a research scientist in the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She was selected to attend the 72 nd Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in...
Virus and values
Prof Arnold Smit, Associate Professor of Business in Society, unpacks five moral values that we all have in common. These values, he says, are the essence of what makes us human, and should be upheld at all costs during these difficult...
Standing together crucial in a time of social distancing
Social distancing has been strongly recommended as one of the ways to curb the spread of the Coronavirus. In an article for Daily Maverick (19 March), Prof Ronelle Burger from the Department of Economics writes that we also need to...
Navigating social solidarity in a time of social distancing
The following article by Prof Ronelle Burger of the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University was published in the Daily Maverick of 19 March 2020: This is a testing time for our nation: It is a time to show our true colours, and...
CD Launch of Die Kruisiging
In the Konservatorium on 3 March a new CD of exceptional significance was introduced to the public. It is a recording of Die Kruisiging, the first St. John Passion in Afrikaans, which was composed by Winfried Lüdemann for the 500 th...
COVID-19: Access to online teaching and student services
Dear Undergraduate and Postgraduate StudentsSince the early start of the recess we have all seen a rapidly changing world around us requiring individual, institutional and national agility. We have all been asked to adapt the way we live...
COVID-19: SU teaching online from 30 March 2020 (including link to online teaching support for lecturers)
Dear ColleagueAt Stellenbosch University we have been heeding the call to adapt the way we live and work to mitigate the possible local impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The University’s Institutional Committee for Business Continuity...
Research project bridges treatment gap for children with MDR-TB
“On World TB Day and during World TB month, the global community is appropriately focusing on the rapidly evolving global COVID-19 pandemic. The care of already vulnerable families and children affected by tuberculosis, including MDR-TB...
WORLD TB DAY 2020
While the world comes to grips with terms such as COVID-19, social distancing and self-isolation, let us not forget that each year, on 24 March we commemorate World Tuberculosis (TB) Day to raise public awareness about the devastating...