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​Former TRC Commissioner calls for restitution urgency

​​Yasmin Sooka, a South African human rights lawyer who served as a commissioner on the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), delivered...

Carbon tax goes up but emitters get more time to clean up

The article South Africa's carbon tax rate goes up but emitters get more time to clean up​ by Dr Lee-Ann Steenkamp was published on 25 February 2022 by The...

South Africans with rare diseases still being left behind

​February is Rare Disease Month with Rare Disease Day being observed on 28 February. In an opinion piece for Health24, Prof Shahida Moosa (Division of Molecular...

SU Research Fellow co-authors a report on the oversight role of parliaments during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Wilhelm Janse van Rensburg (PhD), Parliamentary Researcher on Defence and Research Fellow with SIGLA (Stellenbosch University), co-authored a report on the...

Encouraging Engagement with the SU Assessment Policy

The SU Assessment Policy was approved in 2021 and the Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement (DLTE) identified the need to reflect on it to support the...

Gridlock on SA soybean yields can be broken

​There are ways and means to give South African soybean yields much needed impetus. To do so, farmers will have to make some changes to how they handle their...

TB researcher receives grant from the Wellcome Trust

​Dr Wynand Goosen, from the Animal TB Research group in the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences...

Prof Sandra Swart makes (her own) history

​​As an environmental historian working on the relationship between people and animals, Stellenbosch University’s Prof Sandra Swart has made history herself...

International Mother Language Day: Indigenous languages must be promoted

​International Mother Language Day was observed on Monday 21 February. In an opinion piece for Cape Times, Dr Simthembile Xeketwana (Department of Curriculum...

Researchers harness artificial intelligence for rare disease diagnosis

​​The families of patients with rare genetic diseases have, historically, struggled for years – or even for entire lifetimes – to get a correct diagnosis for...
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