Roxine Staats, a postgraduate student in biochemistry ​at Stellenbosch University, has been awarded a Skye Foundation Scholarship to pursue her MSc degree at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. The Skye Foundation was established in...

​In writing to students, Prof Arnold Schoonwinkel, Vice-Rector: Learning and Teaching, gave through saome important information on the exams. Dear Maties I wish you all the best for the examinations. As Management, we will do everything in...

​The arrival of drug-resistant tuberculosis has significantly complicated global efforts to decrease the scourge of the disease. Each year more than nine million people are infected with TB and another 1.5 million die. But the latest...

​Business leaders were challenged by USB Advisory Board and Woolworths chairman Simon Susman to stand their ground, become a voice, engage and help to solve the country's problems. Keeping quiet, as some did during the politically turbulent...

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A former head girl from Waterkloof High School in Pretoria, Melise du Toit, was awarded the Dean’s Medal for the best honours student in 2015 in the Faculty of Science at Stellenbosch University (SU). The medal, cast in solid silver, is...

​There are four factors that play a negative role on the level of our happiness, says Prof Marius Ungerer, an associate professor in Strategic Management at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB). He calls these factors the...

​With a big Western Province Grand Challenge match against title contenders WPCC coming up this weekend the Steinhoff Maties Hockey men's team won't have much time to think about their disappointing end to the Varsity Hockey tournament. The...

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