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Sandra Mbatha, Coordinator in the Development and Alumni Relations Division, photographed on the Stellenbosch Campus
Image by: Stefan Els

Media release

#Move4Maties: Moving together to help students succeed

Sandra Mbatha, Coordinator in Stellenbosch University’s Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) Division, believes running, cycling, or even a simple walk is...
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Dr Sue Purchase accepts the Karel Styblo Public Health Prize on behalf of the Desmond Tutu TB Centre.

Awards and milestones

Desmond Tutu TB Centre honoured with international public health award

The Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) was recently awarded the 2025 Karel Styblo Union Public Health Prize, providing much-needed encouragement for the Centre to...

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Profs Hemmings and Essop

Awards and milestones

Two FMHS professors join academy of outstanding scientists

Two senior academics from Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) were among the 45 leading scholars inducted as Members of the...

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Prof Nina Schumann in a blue dress in Stellenbosch

Opinion and features

Prof Nina Schumann is finding new notes in a world reimagined by Parkinson’s

When accomplished pianist Prof Nina Schumann went for her first mammogram, she expected a routine check-up. Instead, she left with a life-changing diagnosis...

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A buzz of anticipation filled the Chamber of Mines Building at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Department of Earth Sciences as students, academics and industry delegates recently gathered for the launch of a powerful new scientific instrument – one that promises to transform research across the physical and earth sciences.

Natural and mathematical sciences

A new era for isotope science as SU celebrates installation of advanced instrument

A buzz of anticipation filled the Chamber of Mines Building at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Department of Earth Sciences as students, academics and industry...

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Reuben Masia celebrates his graduation

Media release

First-generation SU medical graduate proves that dreams rooted in small places can travel far

Roossenekal, a 2,5 km² dot on the Limpopo map, is the kind of town “where the horizon feels close and the ceiling of dreams even closer”. But for Reuben Lefa...

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A scene from one of the videos where a Deaf storyteller interprets a children’s storybook in South African Sign Language.

Media release

SU’s Handlab and Book Dash open new worlds for Deaf children

A quiet revolution underway in early childhood literacy didn’t begin in a classroom, but in a studio where Deaf storytellers rehearse, sign and retell African...

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