When Kabelo Tlhabadira moves to the town Kathu in the Northern Cape in January to start his career as a civil engineer-in-training at the Sishen Mine, he...
The ecstatic celebrations of graduation day sometimes obscure the harrowing struggles students and their families endure to make it to the finishing line. For...
The blind South African Paralympic swimmer and medal winner, Hendri Herbst, is the perfect embodiment of the saying “where there is a will, there is a way"...
A week before her November exams at Stellenbosch University (SU) commenced, a final year medical student did something extraordinary. Sarah Camp (25) cycled...
Award-winning journalist Carryn-Ann Nel has overcome many obstacles in her long career, but the most difficult challenge she set for herself was to obtain a...
Overcoming challenges on the basketball court has helped rising sports star Lutho Skweyiya score a slam dunk in the academic arena as well. The Maties Sportsman...
Lynn Hendricks, lecturer in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences since 2022, has had quite the year...
In 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) introduced a renewed MBChB curriculum (see figure 1), as part of an institution-wide programme renewal process which is...
Since its inception in 2020, the Maties Wine Club has connected alumni throughout Europe and South Africa. With our online wine tastings, we were able to come...
Last week, 56 first-generation students across various faculties who have passed through Stellenbosch University’s (SU) SOAR programme completed their academic...
