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Disaster risk resilience network Periperi U steps up to help Africa fight COVID-19

Africa's population is the fastest-growing in the world. Over the next two decades, the continent will account for nearly half of global population growth. For...

SU, Radio KC searching together for energy solutions

True to its commitment to bring about social, cultural, environmental and economic development and change in communities, Stellenbosch University (SU) recently...

Social media: think twice before sharing

​Social media, amongst many other technological advances, is a 21 st century phenomenon. It has become integral in communicating and connecting people in ways...

First serial block-face microscope in SA at Tygerberg Campus

The Electron Microscopy (EM) unit has added a new member to their family - the ThermoFischer Apreo VolumeScope scanning electron microscope (or just the Apreo...

Love for colleagues results in PhD

A love for the people she works with and a desire to see them making healthy choices to prevent and control chronic diseases, is what motivated Dr Darcelle...

Proper definition of national security crucial for free flow of information

A proper definition of national security is needed to protect our constitutional rights to access, receive and impart information, especially that which is in...

SU mourns passing of Prof Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel

​​​Stellenbosch University mourns the passing of Prof Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel today (19 May 2020) following complications after surgery. Prof Plaatjies...

COVID-19: Without communities, actions are doomed to fail

With the Western Cape now being in the lead with confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, the peaking community transmissions are concentrated in the poor and...

Alumnus gives learners access to free online lessons

​When schools across the country closed earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most parents were in a panic about the impact on their children's...

Valuable Innovation and Research contribution enabled through international collaboration

The internationalisation of higher education has become a formidable force for change in the past decade. Having long outgrown its baby shoes of mere...
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