Support Global Recycling Day in March: Bring your e-waste and drop it in the yellow bins at the various sites on our campuses

Water saving initiatives from Stellenbosch University

Every Drop Counts: Help To Save Water on Campus A Message from our Acting Chief Operating Officer: Prof Nicola Smit

Stellenbosch University's (SU) students and staff took to the streets on campus to celebrate Earth Day 2025 with a walk and clean-up on 22 April 2025...

​​​​We celebrate Earth Day on 22 April 2023. Stellenbosch University will start commemorating early with an environmental sustainability expo at the Jan Mouton building on 13-14 April 2023. The SU Environmental Sustainability Expo 2023 aims to broaden the campus conversations around environmental sustainability, promote the SU Environmental Sustainability Plan, create engagement opportunities about the Net Zero Carbon campaign, and pioneer an annual campus event as part of global Earth Day events.

​​​​​Stellenbosch University (SU) has embarked on an ambitious journey to net zero in 2050 with the launch of the institution's first Environmental Sustainability Plan (SUESP). Prof Wim de Villiers, SU Rector and Vice-Chancellor, said SU's Environmental Sustainability Plan is the University's ambitious aim to meet the sustainability challenge in light of the climate crisis. The plan reduces the environmental impact of our campuses and demonstrates our commitment to sustainability from the perspectives of the environment, resources, and society.

Climate change continues to pose a major threat to the health of many communities, especially the most vulnerable, around the world. This was the view expressed by Prof Bob Mash from the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine at Stellenbosch University in a recent Stellenbosch Forum lecture. The lecture, the sixth in the series for 2022, was themed 'Climate change: the greatest global health threat of the 21st century'.

Stellenbosch University celebrated Earth Day (22 April 2021) for the first time with a week-long programme of activities on the Stellenbosch and Tygerberg...