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Maties' Van Rhyn to lead Junior Springbok team
Steinhoff Maties Rugby player Ernst van Rhyn has been named captain of the South African U20 team to play at the World Rugby U20 Championship in Tbilisi, Georgia in June. Van Rhyn is joined by fellow Matie Wikus Groenewald in the squad of...
Chinese alumnus praises SU and South Africa
The following article by Wang Mingjie in Pretoria was written for China Daily Africa and published on 28 April 2017: Zhang Qiaowen says she fell in love with South Africa when she spent three years at Stellenbosch University, studying for a...
Multilingual mobile dictionary help students master concepts
New education students sometimes find it difficult to master concepts that are used in their courses. And because they do not understand concepts, they struggle with reading comprehension and to submit good written assignments. "The...
SU takes leading role in research on the continent
Stellenbosch University (SU) is taking a leading role in addressing the research needs of the African continent. The university is one of sixteen African universities that will participate in activities of the newly launched African...
Engineering evening for Future Maties
The Centre for Student Recruitment and Career Advice (CSR) in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineer at Stellenbosch University (SU), hosted an information evening on Tuesday, 25 April, at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa...
Project Zero bursary 'best birthday present ever'
The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU) welcomed its second cohort of Project Zero bursary recipients in 2017. One of them – William April – received "the best birthday present ever" on 27 June 2016 –...
SA Heart grant boosts myocarditis research
Dr Riëtte du Toit's continued interest in cardiological manifestations in rheumatology was rewarded when she recently won a prestigious research grant from the South African Heart Association (SA Heart). "I find the field immensely...
Counting the environmental costs of shale gas and solar power development
Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane recently gave the green light for shale gas exploration in the Karoo region saying it will boost the economy of the Northern Cape. And while shale gas development is still to commence, questions...
Mapping science communication research over more than three decades
Over the past year, two researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU) have generated a "world map of science communication research", based on the broadest bibliographical analysis of global...
Has our Constitution reached its expiry date?
"Through the research conducted for our book we essentially investigated what the Constitution means to various stakeholders in South Africa and found that there were three threads of meaning – the one is tied to what the constitution...