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Thankful and scared during Women's Month
A year ago, I sat in an interview and was asked how I feel being a young person in South Africa. My answer was simple: it's scary. On any day and at any time, a Twitter feed is never free of a 'missing sister', 'missing child', or 'missing...
Who are South Africa's female economists and role models?
In a PwC article that focuses on women economists, published in Creamer Media's Engineering News on 29 August 2018, the question is asked “Who are South Africa's female economists our daughters should look out for?": When seeing is...
Women in Sport: Sport technologist Christine Barnard
Maties Sport recognises the importance and value of using technology in the training of high-performance (HP) student-athletes and it appointed Christine Barnard, an up-and-coming sport scientist and technologist, to provide administrative...
Annual Academic Day showcases research achievements
The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at Stellenbosch University (SU) recently held is 62nd Annual Academic Day at its Tygerberg Campus in Cape Town. “The Annual Academic Day is the highlight of our academic calendar and...
SU theatre complex to be named after Adam Small
The refurbished theatre complex of Stellenbosch University (SU) will be named after the award-winning poet and playwright, Adam Small. The Drama Department proposed and motivated the naming after a considered and inclusive process. The...
Corporates, private individuals must fulfil human rights obligations – Judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga
Human rights obligations must also be imposed on corporates and private individuals if we are to create a socio-economic system that benefit all South Africans. This was one of the viewpoints of Constitutional Court Judge Mbuyiseli...
Turn the pursuit of happiness into your career
Matie alumna and businesswoman, Adéle Smith, advised students attending a recent Alumni Relation's Careers Café that if they wanted to make a success of their careers (and subsequently their life too) that they would need to make the...
R2.9m grant for first-ever postgraduate programme in fire engineering
Stellenbosch University's Fire Engineering Research Unit (FireSUN) has received a financial injection of R2.9 million that will be used to develop Africa's first-ever postgraduate programme in fire engineering - ultimately providing the...
Called to be a role model
Just over a decade ago, Prof Soraya Bardien was looking for a challenge. Her expertise in human genetics had already served as something of an academic passport to studying everything from an eye disease at the University of Cape Town, to...
South Africa is paying a heavy price for dysfunctional local government
The article, South Africa is paying a heavy price for dysfunctional local government, by Dirk Brand, Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, was published on 3 September 2018 in The...