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NRF honours SU ecologist with Lifetime Achievement Award

​The National Research Foundation (NRF) honoured Emeritus Professor Brian van Wilgen with the Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour that is bestowed by...

Prof Lize van Robbroeck explores issues of colonial heritage and race in visual arts

​​Prof Lize van Robbroeck from the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University recently delivered her inaugural lecture titled, 'Art and the Legacies...

SU is committed to multilingualism

​​ (SU's comment regarding the DA/Studenteplein court case against SU) The DA and Studenteplein's court application against Stellenbosch University (SU), SU...

African scientists show with genomics surveillance how COVID-19 variants reached and spread across Africa

​​​A scientific report featured in the respected global journal Science, revealed that a large consortium of African scientists and public health institutions...

Vloeibare Moed production tackles men's role in combatting GBV

​​Vloeibare Moed (also known as Fluid Courage), a theatre production inspired by the events that led to the gruesome murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana, will be...

International Day of Democracy: Vigilance, development of human capital promote democracy

​The International Day of Democracy is observed on Thursday 15 September. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at Stellenbosch University argue that we must...

Young alumnus wins competition for entrepreneurs

Former Diploma in Sustainable Development student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Lindelwa Mahlalela, has the world at her feet. She was...

Click here to put Eskom’s loadshedding schedule directly into your electronic calendar

A super frustrated computer science student at Stellenbosch University developed an open source software project tracking the latest loadshedding timetables and...

Just keep swimming and you will get there.

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you are always in the same...

Educating girls and providing access to women remains the tried and tested method to true liberation

​This women’s month, we remember the gallant women of 1956 who marched to Pretoria to demand change. Now, as we continue to assess the gains made by women in...
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