Students participating in the #Amagama project at the Woordfees this year were pleasantly surprised about people's willingness to learn isiXhosa. Amagama means “vocabulary" in isiXhosa and the project, now in its second year, aims to cross...

​​​Populations of indigenous people in southern Africa carry a gene that causes lighter skin, and scientists have now identified the rapid evolution of this gene in recent human history. The gene that causes lighter skin pigmentation...

The Siyakhula staff programme is being relaunched and expanded as part of the Employment Equity and Diversity Capacity Building Programme. Since 2016 more than 600 staff members at all post levels from different divisions and disciplines...

​LEARNING & TEACHING ENHANCEMENT SEMINAR, 13 MARCH 2019held in Room 3008, Education Building, from 12h45 – 13h45 Ms Mariëtte Volschenk, a lecturer at the Stellenbosch University Centre for Health Professions Education in the Faculty of...

​When she was awarded the prestigious PhD Global Minds Scholarship through Leuven University, Lynn Hendricks had not prepared herself for temperatures of minus-six degrees and for the lonely, overwhelmed feeling of being in a new country...

When contemplating on social justice in March with Human Right's Day being celebrated on 21 March, one cannot help but to think of the words of former South African president, the late Nelson Mandela who once said that education is not only...

The nominations for this year's SU Woordfees Woordtrofee Awards [Word Trophies] have been announced. The winners will each receive a trophy at an awards ceremony on the 4th of April. The nominees (in alphabetical order) are: Best Upcoming...

​​Thanks to two successful National Equipment Programme (NEP) applications, Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) will be acquiring two state-of-the-art laboratory instruments which have, until now...

Vanessa Reyneke, a Project Coordinator in the General Linguistics Department at Stellenbosch University, and her husband, Johan, have embarked on the ambitious goal of raising R300 000 to help their two-year old Deaf daughter obtain two...

​​​​Every year, Stellenbosch University commemorates Human Rights Day on 21 March with the rest of the country as part of the institution's commitment to the South African Bill of Rights and consequently the right to human dignity, equality...