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Prof Quinette Louw (third from left) and Luigia Nicholas (second from right) with other contributors at the launch of the report in Nairobi
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Media release

New SU-led report highlights Africa's assistive technology access crisis

Access to assistive technologies – tools, devices and systems that help people with disabilities perform everyday tasks more easily – remains limited and uneven...
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From left at the launch of the Unity Movement Collection at the Stellenbosch University Library on 22 May 2026 are Basil Brown, Leslie van Rooi,  Ellen Tise, Pakama Ncume,  Shaun Viljoen, Allan Zinn, Mickey Titus, Felicity Titus, Nico Koopman, Lungisile Ntsebeza,  Mimi Seyffert-Wirth, Lincoln Jacobs and Denise Zinn.

Events

New archive at SU sheds light on overlooked liberation history

A major archive documenting one of South Africa’s most influential – yet often overlooked – liberation traditions has found a home at Stellenbosch University...

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Celebrating Excellence in Teaching-Learning-Assessment

Awards and milestones

Top lecturers take centre stage at TLA celebration

An accomplished audience recently gathered at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) for Stellenbosch University’s (SU) annual “Celebrating...

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Ghana delegation at SU

Media release

Stellenbosch University shares smart campus sustainability insights with Ghana energy delegation

A team from the Ghana Energy Commission recently visited South Africa to share knowledge about Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), smart energy systems, and...

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Dr Panashe Chigumadzi, a historian and writer, was the speaker at Stellenbosch University’s  8th Annual Africa Day Lecture.

Events

‘A crime does not rot’: Africa Day lecture calls for radical slavery reparations

 

The enslavement of black Africans was a “world-breaking crime” that continues to shape global inequality, sovereignty and power today – and now is the time to...

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FHMS leaders celebrate 70 years

Events

70 years of healing, science and humanity celebrated at FMHS gala

Every day, somewhere in South Africa, someone’s life is changed by the work of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS)...

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Speakers at the Annual Youth Day Lecture

Events

Annual Youth Day Lecture confronts the widening gap between degrees and jobs

As South Africa prepares to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising next month, Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Annual Youth Day Lecture...

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