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Robins memoir one of five on Sunday Times Alan Paton Award shortlist
Social anthropologist and Stellenbosch University academic Prof Steven Robins' memoir, Letters of Stone, has been nominated as one of five books to make the Sunday Times shortlist for the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction for 2017. The award...
ABSA invests R5m in a Scholarship Programme for Maties in 2017
A generous investment of R5 million from Absa Bank into a Scholarship Programme at Stellenbosch University (SU) is set to benefit talented and deserving students in need of bursaries in 2017. At a cheque handover ceremony on the...
Tolerance crucial in a democracy
Should we tolerate everything people say or do? Does tolerance imply that we have to accept or tolerate things with which we disagree profoundly? Are there limits to the controversies that we are prepared to tolerate? These were some of the...
SU to set up an institution-wide RapeCulture monitoring function
Stellenbosch University (SU) will be setting up a permanent mechanism to monitor RapeCulture and gender violence on its campuses. Monitoring activities will include an annual climate survey to compile a RapeCulture report, which will be...
CP is the best in horticulture
CP van der Merwe has been named as the recipient of the HORTGRO Science/Daan Strydom Award as the best student in horticultural science at Stellenbosch University. In 2015, at the end of his third year of study, CP also received the Ballie...
Dr Leslie van Rooi appointed as Senior Director: Social Impact and Transformation
Dr Leslie van Rooi, Head of the Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Institute for Student Leadership (FVZS Institute) at Stellenbosch University (SU), was recently appointed as Senior Director: Social Impact and Transformation. He will assume his...
Communication from Council (meeting of 19 June 2017)
The year's second scheduled meeting of the Stellenbosch University (SU) Council took place on 19 June 2017. Matters discussed included campus security, the appointment of deans, the name change of SU's main library, the report by the End...
Experience anatomy like never before
An exciting new online tool that is set to revolutionise the learning and teaching of anatomy and physiology has recently been acquired by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). “This interactive educational resource will give...
SU receives exceptionally large individual donation
Stellenbosch University (SU) has received one of its largest individual donations ever – an amount of R194.6 million. This huge gift came in the form of a bequest by the late Mr DW (Dirk) Ackermann, an engineer by profession. “An investment...
From Stellenbosch to Bamberg - handing over leadership of the Global Network for Public Theology
Prof Wabel will serve as the hosting chair of the next Global Network for Public Theology Consultation that will take place in Bamberg in 2019. Dr Dion Forster who served as the acting host Chair, on behalf of Prof Dr Nico Koopman...