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Stellenbosch University
President Ramaphosa calls for united action to end hunger at flagship SU event
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers keynote address at Stellenbosch University’s 7th Social Justice Summit in Cape Town. Summit focuses on food security, climate change and peace as pathways to equality and resilience. President endorses the...
Faculty of Law
Max Loubser – In Memoriam
It is with great sadness that the Faculty of Law announces the sudden passing, on 13 October 2025, of Max Loubser, Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow in the Department of Private Law.
Stellenbosch University
World Food Day: Promote indigenous foods to address food insecurity, malnutrition
World Food Day is celebrated annually on 16 October. SU experts wrote opinion pieces for the media. They highlight the importance of promoting indigenous foods.
Department of Philosophy
Challenging the hard distinction between the public and the private spheres in the time of Corona
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly contracted and enlarged our frontiers of being.
Department of Philosophy
Life in the time of COVID
Before COVID-19, one of my recent research projects focused on refutations of anti-natalist arguments; specifically, that of David Benatar. Anti-natalists hold that having children is unethical, and Benatar bases this claim on the concept...
Department of Philosophy
Humanity: The dialectic of achievement and failure
It is ever more universally claimed that the global spread of the potentially lethal Covid 19 virus represents the greatest health and economic disaster that we have seen since the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the First and Second World Wars...
Department of Philosophy
Abortion: A Recurring Dispute
Just when one began to think that the world has enough problems, the dispute about abortion has been re-opened. This year it is 50 years since the sensational American Supreme Court ruling that found that the state does not have the right...
Department of Philosophy
Values and choices
It is now over three months since South Africa’s national lockdown was announced. Even as restrictions begin to ease, we all continue to adjust to the abrupt changes to our lifestyles: to the ways in which we live and work. These changes...
Department of Philosophy
Beyond the pandemic: problems of the past, present, and future
Many of the differential effects of the global catastrophes we face today can be traced to pre-existing socio-political and economic realities. We have seen this in the last decade with the ever more serious disasters of the climate crises...
Stellenbosch University
Prof Herman Kamper explores how humans and machines learn language
Prof Herman Kamper from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering delivered his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 21 October 2025. He focuses on methods that enable machines to learn spoken language autonomously. He aims to develop...