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Adventurous doctor with a heart of gold gets 7 distinctions

​​​A week before her November exams at Stellenbosch University (SU) commenced, a final year medical student did something extraordinary. Sarah Camp (25) cycled...

Popular journalist obtains master’s degree for research on payment model for media

Award-winning journalist Carryn-Ann Nel has overcome many obstacles in her long career, but the most difficult challenge she set for herself was to obtain a...

Rising basketball star graduates after giving his studies the full-court press

Overcoming challenges on the basketball court has helped rising sports star Lutho Skweyiya score a slam dunk in the academic arena as well. The Maties Sportsman...

SA’s first Global Minds PhD scholar graduates

​Lynn Hendricks, lecturer in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences since 2022, has had quite the year...

Keeping our finger on the pulse of the renewed MBChB

In 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) introduced a renewed MBChB curriculum (see figure 1), as part of an institution-wide programme renewal process which is...

Maties Wine Club – Let's raise our glasses

​Since its inception in 2020, the Maties Wine Club has connected alumni throughout Europe and South Africa. With our online wine tastings, we were able to come...

More than 50 first-generation SU students SOAR at December 2023 graduation

Last week, 56 first-generation students across various faculties who have passed through Stellenbosch University’s (SU) SOAR programme completed their academic...

Oscar and Rose Mpetha Memorial Lecture 2023

On 20th October 2023, the Transformation Office at Stellenbosch University (SU) hosted the Oscar and Rose Mpetha Memorial Lecture 2023. Oscar Mpetha, a key...

Bringing SA 'bottled sunshine' to Germany

For Sabrina Majchrzak, a semester at Stellenbosch University was more than just an adventure, it was a life-changing experience that eventually led to the...

Alumna makes meaningful contribution to #Move4Food

​​Marilet Daniel, a Stellenbosch University (SU) alumna, proudly represented her home town of Rawsonville when she recently completed the Berlin Marathon 2023...
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