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Catalysts for growth – SU’s Pro-Vice-Chancellors to drive innovation, partnerships and excellence
As Stellenbosch University (SU) continues to advance its ambitious Vision 2040 strategy, it is strengthening its leadership capacity through the introduction of...
Impact
Dr Renée Goretsky supports researchers with funding opportunities
As Specialist: Research Grant Proposal Developer and Writer in SU’s Division for Research Development (DRD), Dr Renée Goretsky helps researchers turn ideas and...
Institutional news
Access to finance helps SMEs survive – Prof Ashenafi Fanta
Prof Ashenafi Fanta, of Stellenbosch Business School in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, delivered his inaugural lecture on Thursday, 7 May 2026...
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Maggie Walters helps design spaces that shape academic life at SU
At the intersection of strategy, design and daily campus life, Maggie Walters helps shape the spaces where learning and research unfold. From navigating complex...
Agriculture and food sciences
SU key partner in new platform to strengthen food systems in Africa
Africa is not short of research on food systems, but translating that knowledge into effective interventions to improve diets, health and livelihoods across the...
Opinion and features
Pulmonary Hypertension: A global health crisis we must address
Pulmonary hypertension, a serious disease characterised by high blood pressure in the lungs, affects many people globally. To mark World Pulmonary Hypertension...
Opinion and features
Key labour issues under the spotlight on Workers’ Day
Workers’ Day was celebrated on 1 May. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at Stellenbosch University focused on dignity at work, appearance-based...
Impact
Siyavuya Ngemntu supports students’ journeys across borders with care
In the Registrar’s Division, Siyavuya Ngemntu plays a pivotal role, guiding students with international qualifications through a complex admissions journey with...
Institutional news
From farm to fork: Prof Mapiye is rethinking meat through alternative diets
Prof Cletos Mapiye from the Department of Animal Sciences in the Faculty of AgriSciences delivered his inaugural lecture on Thursday 30 April 2026. The title of...
Impact
Connecting people, processes and technology: Luke Cuff’s role in SU’s IT transformation
Behind every smooth registration, payroll process and learning platform is a complex web of systems – at the centre of it all is Luke Cuff, who leads...
Impact
Randall Adams strengthens SU’s global reach through diplomacy and coordination
Randall Adams plays a crucial role behind the scenes in advancing SU’s global engagement, expertly coordinating international delegations and diplomatic...
Opinion and features
A new vision of democracy is emerging from the ground up by ‘we, the people’
Thembalethu Seyisi is the Head of Law Reform, Advocacy and Institutional Partnerships at the Centre for Social Justice and the Division for Advancement...
Media release
SU student takes African prosthetics innovation to global stage
At just 23, Stellenbosch University (SU) master’s student and NAVU Mobility founder Amohetsoe Shale is preparing for the biggest sprint of her life: access to a...
Arts, languages and social sciences
‘Decay without mourning’ conference offers new ways of caring for the past
An international conference at Stellenbosch University (SU) has challenged long-held assumptions about heritage, urging scholars, artists and archivists to...
Awards and milestones
SU’s website earns global acclaim with prestigious Gold Quill Award
Stellenbosch University (SU) recently received an international Gold Quill Award of Merit from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)...
Opinion and features
Safeguarding South African research in a changing global landscape
An effective research security approach cannot simply be a list of prohibitions. It must be a thoughtful, risk-based framework that acknowledges our unique...
Opinion and features
Rethinking our freedom in a time of climate crisis
South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on 27 April. In an opinion piece for the Cape Argus, Dr Gibson Ncube from the Department of Modern Foreign Languages draws...
Medicine and health
SU researchers contribute to major stunting study
A new special issue of the journal Development Southern Africa brings together leading South African researchers, policymakers and practitioners to confront one...
Opinion and features
Democracy under pressure as populism rises
Lindsay Gurnell is currently pursuing a master’s degree in political science at SU. She is particularly interested in political behaviour and democratic...
Opinion and features
Democracy faces growing strain as institutions weaken and trust erodes
Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His research focuses on the political history...