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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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A picture of a group of many African animals, including giraffes, lions, elephants, and monkeys standing together with Kilimanjaro Mountain in the background.

Media release

Many factors drive changes in human-wildlife relationships

Human populations are expanding and encroaching further into wildlife habitats, leading to dynamic and evolving relationships between humans and wildlife. As...

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Swartberg mountain range, Western Cape, South Africa

Media release

Geoscience for everyone: word bank of geological terms in all South Africa’s eleven spoken languages

The Mineralogical Association of South Africa (MinSA) is proud to announce the successful completion of a pioneering lexicography exercise that has collated...

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Impact

Rulanzen Martin brings heart, humour and technical skill to SU’s web team

From helping shape and maintain one of SU’s most important digital gateways to perfecting Cape Malay curries after hours, Rulanzen Martin brings equal measures...

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Ebola-Response

Medicine and health

Stellenbosch University scientists respond to Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda

Scientists at Stellenbosch University (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) have rapidly mobilised to support efforts to understand and contain...

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Speakers at the launch of the Library Research Week

Events

Researchers urged to keep human judgement at the centre of AI-driven science

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes universities and research institutions across the world, Stellenbosch University’s (SU) annual Library Research...

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