Media release
Learning leadership from horses at SU
Leadership lessons at Stellenbosch University (SU) sometimes happen beyond lecture halls and meeting rooms.
Instead, they unfold in the university’s paddocks...
Education
New cohort of Future Professors receive a warm welcome at introductory conference
At a time when universities worldwide are grappling with rapid technological change, evolving knowledge economies and shifting public expectations, a group of...
Opinion and features
South Africa’s organ shortage: Time to act
World Kidney Day is marked each year on 12 March. In an opinion piece for the Weekend Argus, Prof Yazied Chothia from the Division of Nephrology writes that a...
Media release
SU part of global team delivering landmark G20 digital agenda analysis
Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Policy Innovation Lab is part of an international partnership that has formally handed over a landmark policy report tracing the...
Media release
New study questions value of grade repetition before matric
Now that the dust has settled on the matric results celebrations and the school year is in full swing, we need to take a harder look at whether high repetition...
Media release
SU lecturer tackles epic challenge to raise funds for science students in need
First-year Stellenbosch University (SU) chemistry lecturer Dr Marietjie Lutz is back in the saddle for a good cause, raising funds for students in need. But...
Opinion and features
International Women’s Day: Key challenges for gender equality remain
The weight women carry, social norms and sexual corruption, and empathy for victims of violence. These are the issues that experts at Stellenbosch University...
Media release
Hope in a time of fracture: Prof Tshepo Madlingozi joins Centre for Social Justice
If you see an elegant figure walking thoughtfully across the Stellenbosch University (SU) campus – composed, alert, quietly resolute – it may well be Prof...
Media release
Stellenbosch University launches #GivingMaties, 40-day drive to fight student hunger
Student hunger remains a pressing reality at Stellenbosch University (SU) – and from 5 March to 15 April, the SU community is mobilising to respond. Alumni...
Awards and milestones
Matie alumnus appointed CEO of United States Tennis Association
From the Maties tennis courts in Stellenbosch to leading one of the biggest organisations in world tennis, Stellenbosch University (SU) alumnus Craig Tiley...
Awards and milestones
Top first-year achievers shine at Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards
Stellenbosch University (SU) honoured 37 of the country’s most outstanding matric achievers on Tuesday evening at the Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards for...
Media release
Stability without equity is fragile, Baroness Valerie Amos warns in 7th Social Justice Lecture
On World Day of Social Justice, the Baxter Theatre Centre in Rondebosch became a forum for a sober reckoning with the state of the world. Delivering...