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Urgent mental health intervention needed during COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has damaged the mental well-being of many people. This damage may be hard to reverse without prompt action, argues Prof Soraya Seedat from...

Stories of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic can help us today

A research project at Stellenbosch University (SU) that commenced in 2018, the centenary year of the Spanish Influenza, has gained much more relevance today...

TygerMatie’s data ‘skeem’ ensures no student gets left behind

In yet another example of students pulling together in a time of need, fifth-year medical student Sibongumezi Mtshali has started a campaign to help students...

Lockdown and a lack of cigarettes for World No Tobacco Day

Ever since the ban on tobacco products came into effect, people have been laughing at all the “ZOL" memes and videos doing the rounds. People are frustrated and...

Dr Neill Goosen first full-time Director of ARUA Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Energy

The first full-time Director of the ARUA Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Energy, Dr Neill Goosen, started his term in January 2020. Dr Goosen says: “Stellenbosch...

SU researchers, alumni honoured by SA Academy

​Three researchers and two former postgraduate students from Stellenbosch University (SU) have been honoured by the South African Academy for Science and Arts...

SU choir continues to sing during COVID-19 pandemic

With South Africa still in a state of lockdown, having to follow strict social distancing rules, the award-winning Stellenbosch University (SU) Choir has...

What Level 3 risk adjustment means for SU and payment relief measures

​25 May 2020Dear StudentOver the past eight weeks we as Stellenbosch University community have experienced first-hand how our daily activities have been...

Africa united in battle against COVID-19

On Monday (25 May) we celebrate Africa Day. In an opinion piece for News24, Dr Nico Elema from the Centre for Collaboration in Africa writes about how Africans...
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