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Enter our June-July photo competition celebrating World Environment Day 2023
This year the theme for World Environment Day 2023 reminds us that our actions on plastic pollution matters. Stellenbosch University's Environmental Sustainability Team and the SDG/2063 Impact Hub are raising awareness by launching a...
Connected to Africa: Dr Lueme focuses on a healthy planet
The institutional theme at Stellenbosch University (SU) for May this year is “Connected to Africa" and on 25 May we celebrated Africa Day with the rest of the world. Africa Day is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the...
Prof Wessel du Toit helps to enhance the quality of wine
Prof Wessel du Toit from the Department of Viticulture and Oenology in the Faculty of AgriSciences at Stellenbosch University recently delivered his inaugural lecture titled “My wine journey". Du Toit spoke to the Corporate Communication...
Outcome of motions - Extraordinary meeting of the SU Convocation
The Management of Stellenbosch University (SU) notes the outcome of the extraordinary meeting of the Convocation held on the evening of Thursday, 1 June 2023. The meeting was chaired by retired justice BM Griesel after the members of the...
World Environment Day: Civil disobedience and the climate activist movement
World Environment Day is observed annually on 5 June. In an opinion piece for News24, Prof Oilver Ruppel from the Department of Mercantile Law writes that in the absence of global and concerted efforts to address the climate crisis...
Sugar tax alone not enough to combat obesity & NCDs
In April 2018, the South African government, in response to a recommendation of the World Health Organisation, introduced a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) known as the Health Promotion Levy (HPL) in an attempt to reduce citizens'...
SU students and alumni off to Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology and Medicine
Four young scientists and alumni from Stellenbosch University (SU) will be part of the group of nine young South African scientists who have been selected to participate in the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physiology and...
Weevil researcher helps build "genetic library" of South African species
As a child, a book about weevils borrowed from the Benoni Library gave Dr Steffan Hansen his first glimpse into the world of these beetles. Over the years his interest in insects grew to such an extent that it became his chosen study field...
Felix helps FMHS departments reach their fundraising goals
“People don't give money to strangers; they give it to friends. Therefore, I regard myself as a friend- as well as a fundraiser." This is the philosophy of Felix Spies, Manager: Fundraising and Partnerships of the Faculty of Medicine and...
Multi-skilling yourself as an accounting professional of the future
The accounting profession is going through a period of significant change. A couple of years ago many argued that mandatory audit firm rotation was the most significant change to impact the auditing profession in recent years. It is now...