​​Legal services in South Africa are very expensive and this often deprives indigent people of access to justice. Although Legal Aid South Africa is mandated to provide legal services to people within a specific income group, budget cuts in...

​More than 650 people took part in the Platbos Forest reforestation programme recently, with students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) enthusiastically paving the way toward restoring this indigenous forest and the...

CTL AUXIN SESSION, 28 May 2019 held at Den Bosch, from 12:45 – 13:45 In this Auxin session, Dr Michael Schmeisser gave feedback on a non-scientific module for first years in Horticultural Science, which was introduced in 2018 for students...

The newly-appointed Senior Director: Student Affairs at Stellenbosch University (SU) hopes to make a positive contribution that will offer a transformative student experience to students studying at the University. Dr Choice Makhetha, who...

Every year, one in ten people die of a stroke globally making it the second-leading cause of death. Survivors suffer impaired mobility and struggle to execute daily tasks that most of us take for granted. Since they need lifelong support...

Within the rumble of new developments, daily construction, and maintenance tasks, fixing pipes, painting walls, and finding new ways of dealing with loadshedding, is a small team of five that is looking after all that is our environmental...

Leadership and mental health came under the spotlight when more than 50 student leaders from all over the world met on the main campus of Stellenbosch University (SU) from 23–26 June 2019 for the International Association of Student Affairs...

​Standing desks that help adults to move more during the day are gaining popularity worldwide. Now researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FHMS) have developed an affordable, adaptable school chair to make this...

​COLLOQUIUM: Responses to the Naming of Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Violence ​Professor Tombs' paper was followed by responses from Shantelle Weber, Senior lecturer: Practical Theology and Missiology, Ashwin Thyssen, senior student leader...

“Meeting new people, keeping an open mind, and having a lot of fun." This is what Mira Janna Pichai from Clemson University in South Carolina, United States, expects from the 2019 Stellenbosch University (SU) Summer/Winter School. And she...