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Lighter skin pigmentation linked to rapidly evolved gene

​​​Populations of indigenous people in southern Africa carry a gene that causes lighter skin, and scientists have now identified the rapid evolution of this...

Woordfees festival goers’ willingness to learn isiXhosa gives students hope

Students participating in the #Amagama project at the Woordfees this year were pleasantly surprised about people's willingness to learn isiXhosa. Amagama means...

Popular Siyakhula staff programme relaunched and expanded

The Siyakhula staff programme is being relaunched and expanded as part of the Employment Equity and Diversity Capacity Building Programme. Since 2016 more than...

Kayamandi learners tackle pollution in the Krom River

​​More than 100 learners and their teachers from four schools in Kayamandi will participate in a clean-up initiative of the Krom River in Stellenbosch ahead of...

‘Shades of Yale’ a cappella group to perform in Stellenbosch

Shades of Yale, an ensemble that specialises in “music of the African diaspora & African-American tradition", will be performing alongside the Stellenbosch...

FMHS alumnus awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

Dr Nabeelah Kajee, a cum laude medical (MB,ChB) graduate from Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), has been named a...

First field skills course for our first-year students - Bloubergstrand

​The first Field Skills course for this year's first-year students means being thrown into the deep end of studying rocks and beach sediments along the coast of...

VC and fellow Maties complete Cape Town Cycle Tour for #Move4Food

​​​For the second year in a row, Stellenbosch University (SU) Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Wim de Villiers, completed the Cape Town Cycle Tour with a group...

Concentrated solar power could help ease SA’s electricity woes

​South Africans were caught off guard recently when Eskom announced the implementation of load-shedding. With more disruptions likely to occur in the next few...

Why warthogs are useful in figuring out how bovine TB spreads

​ ​​This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article here . Tuberculosis is not just a human disease. Cattle also contract a...
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