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Research publication highlights SU’s contribution to global sustainable development goals

The rapid detection of honey fraud; the role of women in the military; the link between heart disease and mental health; career development for township youth...

Teaching Mathematics for the future

Researchers from across the world recently gathered in Cape Town to share knowledge about and discuss “sense-making" in mathematics teaching and learning...

#WomenofSU – Focus on Prof Nox Makunga

​After obtaining her doctorate in 2004, Prof Nox Makunga of the Department of Botany and Zoology joined Stellenbosch University (SU) in 2005 and quickly...

‘Hockey a sport of passion and pride’

​​One of the most memorable photos of the 2017 Varsity Hockey tournament shows the Maties Hockey women's team tackling their goalkeeper, Nicole la Fleur, after...

Spivak: “We should pray to be haunted by the other”

​Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak reflects on globalisation, the role of universities in educating students and planning for failure at IPSA's recent Gender...

Prof Homi Bhabha to visit Stellenbosch University

​​​Professor Homi Bhabha ( Bio), the world’s premier post-colonial literary theorist and Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, will...

#WomenofSU: ‘Dignity and respect for all students’

​Respect and dignity. These two words emerge frequently when interviewing the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science's (FHMS) newly appointed Manager: Student...

Major grant for research on infectious diseases in Africa

​​Stellenbosch University is among five African institutions to benefit from a grant of nearly R102 million (£6 million) from the United Kingdom's Global...

Major boost for marine sciences research in the South

Marine science research in South Africa has received a major boost after the signing of a high-level agreement between South Africa, Brazil and the European...

Elderly suffer from malnutrition

Old age is supposed to be a worry-free time when you can sit back and enjoy your twilight years. Unfortunately, this isn't the case for many elderly South...
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