Operation Maties Bikes has delivered 150 bicycles to rural communities where transportation barriers often determine life outcomes. The FMHS has distributed these Maties Bikes to under-resourced rural schools, undergraduate students on...

Professor Soraya Bardien of has been awarded the prestigious Higher Education Resource Services South Africa (HERS-SA) Women Leaders Award in the Science category. Bardien leads sub-Saharan Africa's only research group investigating the...

SU took home three prestigious accolades at the annual National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)/South32 Awards. Prof Shahida Moosa, Prof Yin-Zhe Ma and the Innovation and Commercialisation Division were recognised as winners in their...

SU officially opened the Medical Morphology Learning Centre (MMLC), establishing Africa's largest and most technologically advanced facility of its kind. The MMLC blends cutting-edge technology with traditional anatomical resources...

Investing that protects people and the planet is growing: new study maps the progress in South Africa

Stellenbosch University (SU) has over the past two decades made steady progress in creating an environment where students with disabilities feel included and supported. The University's Disability Unit (DU), established in 2007, has been...

Starting on 18 August 2025, Stellenbosch University (SU), through the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Learning and Teaching, will conduct two key surveys: the South African Survey of Student Engagement (SASSE) for undergraduate...

Florence de Vries is the head of Marketing and Communications at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is the project lead for the Tygerberg Campus 'singing rock' visual redress initiative. Her work on the national...

Sara Cornelia “Sally” Ehlers (1912–1996) was the first woman to graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree from SU. Her 1932 graduation marked not only a personal milestone, but also a historic first for the Faculty, which...

NITheCS is the first of South Africa's new national research institutes NITheCS unites South Africa's 26 public universities and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences The institute will build capacity through collaboration