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Learners get a sneak preview of wine as a career
There is much more to wine than meets the eye. This was but one of many enlightened discoveries made by a group of learners visiting the Cape Winelands last month as guests of Stellenbosch University and the Elsenburg Agricultural...
Van Zyl takes the reins as head of pathology
As a junior doctor, Professor Gert van Zyl was struck by the difference that antiretroviral therapy made to the quality of life of HIV patients. This realisation sparked a curiosity and passion for research that is relevant to the South...
Covid-19 greatly increases risk of complications and death for pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa
Pregnant women who are hospitalised with Covid-19 in sub-Saharan Africa are dying at a rate far greater than pregnant people without Covid-19 and non-pregnant people with Covid-19, according to a new multicenter study encompassing six...
Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival is back!
The Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival is back and will take place at the Stellenbosch University Konservatorium building from 1 to 10 July. Tickets for the evening concerts are on sale at Webtickets and patrons are well...
CISU Offers South African Students a taste of the traditional Chinese "Dragon Boat Festival"
On 3rd June 2022, Worcester Gymnasium was honored to be part of an activity day celebrating Chinese culture, cuisine, and language. This day of enrichment was brought to Worcester by Professor Binlan Huang, Chinese Co-Director of CISU...
African Christians should “guard against being ‘captured’”
Why are some African Christian leaders and their followers loyal to seemingly morally corrupt and socially problematic American politicians and their political agendas? This was the question Prof Dion Forster from the Department of...
World Oceans Day: Interesting facts about alien species, worms and seagrass
The annual World Oceans Day was celebrated on 8 June. In opinion pieces* for The Conversation, marine genomics and biology experts in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University shared a few interesting facts about...
Avatar against food waste in the citrus industry
Researchers at Empa’s Biomimetical Membranes and Textiles laboratory in Switzerland, with the help of horticulturalists from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, have developed a so-called “digital twin” for citrus fruit. The virtual...
Pioneering study of TB in rhinos aids Kruger Park’s conservation efforts
The largest study ever to be conducted on a free-ranging population of rhinoceros, revealed that about one in every seven rhinos in the Kruger National Park (KNP) had evidence that they had been infected with Mycobacterium bovis (M...
Prof Anita Cloete helps to emphasise reciprocal relationship between media and religion
Prof Anita Cloete from the Department of Practical Theology and Missiology at Stellenbosch University recently delivered her inaugural lecture titled Being human in a technology-driven world: Checkmate or opportunity for social...