​With a big Western Province Grand Challenge match against title contenders WPCC coming up this weekend the Steinhoff Maties Hockey men's team won't have much time to think about their disappointing end to the Varsity Hockey tournament. The...

​​​​​​​​​​NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE CONVOCATION OF STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY Election of a council member for the term 22 June 2016 - 01 April 2018 Members of the Convocation of Stellenbosch University have been notified in the press that...

South African cricket legend and Maties Cricket alumnus Peter Kirsten celebrated his 61st birthday on the cricket fields at Coetzenburg this weekend, surrounded by other former Maties attending the Maties Cricket reunion. Maties who...

The Manuscripts Section of the JS Gericke Library mourns the recent senseless murder of Winnie Rust, beloved resident and author from Wellington. In 2015 she was the speaker at the sixth Manuscript Section Lecture and her works include...

Stellenbosch University (SU) has again been selected to serve on the steering committee of AC 21 – Academic Consortium for the 21 st Century. This was announced at the 2016 AC21 International Forum held at Chemnitz University of Technology...

Traditionally, someone who suffered from hypertension – or high blood pressure – would only receive treatment when his or her blood pressure was measured and the reading was found be higher than normal. But this meant that the condition was...

"Visionary leaders" is how Prof Jimmy Volmink, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Stellenbosch University (SU), described the two Vice Deans recently appointed to the faculty's management. Dr Therese Fish, who has...

Can cities solve problems countries can't? How will cities shape the future? These are some of the questions academics, business and government leaders from around the world will discuss at the 2016 Chicago Forum on Global Cities. Among...

​​South Africa has the highest rate of women killed by their intimate partner in the world despite various interventions such as the Sixteen Days of Activism of No Violence Against Women and Children campaign each year from late November to...

​​​With his inaugural lecture on modernity in Afrikaans literature, Prof. Visagie proved his knowledge of and insight into his subject. His research on male subjectivity in Afrikaans literature, and more recently on the depictions of human...