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Research explores issue of violence against people with disability

Alarming statistics show that people with disability experience much higher rates of violence than the rest of the population, and that poverty, which often...

New study reveals unexpected diversity of South Africa’s ecologically important long-tongued flies

A detailed study of over 50 long-tongued fly species endemic to Southern Africa has shown that species known to science only account for about half of the...

Educational psychology students encouraged to serve society

​​After a very competitive selection process with almost 200 applications, twelve students were selected for the MEd Psychology programme at the Faculty of...

The Department of Forest and Wood Science graduated three PhD students in December 2022.

Sadiq Mohammed, Charles Mulenga and Russel Morkel (not in the photo) successfully completed their PhD studies despite the interruption caused by Covid-19 and...

SU welcomes more than a 100 global law scholars and faculty for Global Scholars Academy

The Global Scholars Academy (GSA) is an annual international event hosted by the Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), which brings...

Justice Nambitha Dambuza calls for a review of South Africa’s mandatory sentencing legislation

South Africa's sentencing legislation has not been successful in its objective to reduce the crime rate in the country; instead, the crime rate has increased...

SU scientists first to detect new ‘kraken’ Covid variant in SA

​In Covid-19 history, Prof Tulio de Oliveira and his team at Stellenbosch University (SU), as well as the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa (NGS...

SU mourns passing of Prof Christo Viljoen

​Stellenbosch University (SU) is saddened to learn of the death this morning (13 January 2023) of Prof Christo Viljoen, a valued member of our university...

Study sheds new light on grapevine mites, their management

​​​​​When planning their pest management programmes, South African viticulturists typically assume that different types of microscopically small grapevine mites...

Harvard's prestigious Institute for Global Law and Policy and SU to inspire next-generation researchers

In what can be described as a golden feather in the cap of Stellenbosch University's (SU) fast-expanding international collaborations, SU's Faculties of Law and...
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