​​​Saturday (16 October) was World Food Day. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at Stellenbosch University focused on how safe and healthy food can help prevent us from getting sick and ensure good public health. Click on the links...

​​​The Stellenbosch University (SU) community came out in full support of the University's annual Campus Giving Day held recently on the Stellenbosch campus. Campus Giving Day 2021 formed part of the Annual Fund, Bridge the Gap, that aims...

​​Final-year LLB student and secretary of the Black Lawyers Association Stellenbosch University Student Chapter (BLASC SU) Thembalethu Seyisi has one main long-term goal and that is to highlight social justice. He especially wants to do...

​​​​​​When first-year postgraduate LLB student Willem Sterrenberg Horn first stood for election as a house committee member in 2019, he was the only non-heterosexual candidate. This year, however, there were multiple non-heterosexual...

The Division of Nephrology was accredited as a Regional Training Centre for the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) for a period of five years. The accreditation runs from 2021 to 2026, and at the end of the term there will be an...

​Professor Faadiel Essop, Director of the Centre for Cardio-metabolic Research in Africa (CARMA) at Stellenbosch University, recently received the Physiology Society of Southern Africa's (PSSA) Lifetime Award in recognition of his...

​​Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Research Chair in Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University (SU), was awarded the 2020 Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award at a ceremony held at the Brenthurst Library in...

The article entitled Emergency online remote learning's unintended consequences by Prof Riaan Rudman was published in University World News (Africa Edition) on 28 October 2021. Here is a short excerpt: In 2020, the higher education sector...

​Grace Mngadi's passion for leadership was recently recognised when she was awarded a Rector's Award for Excellence. She is one of the 82 recipients of this year's annual Rector's Award for Excellent Achievement, which recognises students...

​​The pandemic and lockdown have proven that open data and the sharing of information, especially by governments, save lives and accelerate innovation, research, open science, collaboration and community engagement. So said Prof Kanshukan...