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High Performance programme now includes Mountain-biking

​​Mountain-biking now forms part of Maties Sport's High Performance programme at Stellenbosch University (SU) and will become part of the exciting Varsity...

Student is not discouraged by her disability

​​As a young child doctors predicted that Samantha Stander will never be able to walk. She was diagnosed with severe congenital developmental dysplasia. Now...

Helping courts check government spending

A capabilities approach can help courts see to it that government spending is proportionate to the socioeconomic needs of vulnerable members of society, writes...

Clean hands save lives

Every year hospital-related infections kill 16 million patients worldwide. Germs and bugs are microscopic and cannot be seen with the naked eye. Hands are the...

Failing support systems cause nurses to fail patients

International Nurses Day is marked on 12 May to honour this group of selfless health professionals that forms the backbone of healthcare systems around the...

Achieving the impossible - inspirational words from Lewis Pugh to the DTTC

World-renowned endurance swimmer, Lewis Pugh, has inspired and encouraged staff from the Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) at the Faculty of Medicine and Health...

Maties dominate South African leg of FameLab competition

​​Five of the ten finalists in the South African leg of FameLab – one of the biggest science communication competitions in the world – were from Stellenbosch...

SU and Volkskerk van Afrika sign agreement

​​"This signals our continued commitment to our role in society and to what the University can do in terms of redressing our divided past." This was how Prof...

A healthy, longer life is a walk in the park

"Walk it off….just a little bit" is the message a Stellenbosch University sport and exercise medicine specialist is spreading for World Move for Health Day...

Forest and Wood Science student scoops second prize in Brazil

​​​​Stephen Amiandamhen, a PhD student in theForest and Wood Science Department, was awardedthe second prize of 250 US dollars for oral and posterpresentations...
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