Final-year Sustainable Development student Gafsa Adam has found early success as an entrepreneur after her jewellery business was selected to be featured on American online marketplace ShopConsciously, where it will be exposed to...

​Not many A1 rated academics can among their outputs and citations list that their tweets in support of Springbok rugby were quoted in newspapers. But such is the nature and public following of Prof Jonathan Jansen, distinguished professor...

How can universities in South Africa play a bigger role in the development of society? This was the question Prof Aslam Fataar (Department of Education Policy Studies / Transformation Office) explored in a recent article for University...

​​​Functional seizures (FS) – observable paroxysms of altered behaviour or movement with or without a loss of consciousness – is a serious mental illness and can have negative effects on the quality of life and functioning of people with...

​​A discovery of multiple fossil assemblages and ash deposits in the Eastern Gobi basin in Mongolia could reveal new knowledge of dinosaurs and extreme climate conditions that existed on Earth 120 to 80 million years ago. This is according...

​A junior lecturer and PhD student in Mathematical Sciences, Jacques Rabie, rubbed shoulders with some of the top researchers in his field at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Germany recently. He was​ one of 200 young researchers from...

​​Stellenbosch University Museum hosts conference, Ubuntu Dialogues: Revisit. Rethink. Reimagine Ubuntu in conversation with social justice, feminism, and Ubuntu and the politics of knowledge production are three themes to be explored at...

​The 2022 International Conference and Summit on Social Justice asked difficult questions and was rewarded with big answers. We outline the themes of the conference and report on some of Stellenbosch University's (SU) contributions to them...

A first-of-a-kind diploma programme in infectious diseases, specifically tailored to the needs of the African health-care context, was launched at the beginning of 2022 by Stellenbosch University (SU), in partnership with the international...

The Chair in Social Justice in the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University (SU) has transitioned into a Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) with Prof Thuli Madonsela as its inaugural director. The launch of the CSJ was made public at the 3 rd...