Herbst van der Merwe is this year's recipient of the HORTGRO Science/Daan Strydom Award for the best final year student in Horticultural Science at Stellenbosch University (SU). The announcement was made at the HORTGRO Science Technical...

The audience sat up straight when sport scientist Dr Zarko Krkeljas began his talk on lower back pain at the annual Postdoc Research Day at Stellenbosch University. They watched closely as Dr Emma McKinney relayed ways with which to spot a...

​ This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article . Africa has the highest burden of HIV/Aids and malaria with escalating rates of non-communicable diseases. How will the World Health Organisation's...

​Given the problems around land restitution, it remains to be seen whether expropriation without compensation will be the silver bullet for this. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Olaf Zenker from the Institute of Social Anthropology...

Aloma Fourie Planned Maintenance Manager in Facilities Management’s property services department. Aloma Fourie's contribution to Facilities Management over the decade that she has been part of the SUFM team, is no small feat. Her impact on...

“By the time a black and a white South African at the age of 18 come to the university, they are already messed up in their heads. Depending on which schools they went to; the homes they grew up in; the churches, mosque or synagogues they...

​The Partnership for Africa's Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA) recently launched its Early Career Fellowship Programme which will offer fellowships to 50 staff members within the PANGeA network over four years. The programme aims to...

This article was first published on The Conversation . Read the original article here . As a team of South African researchers we have identified a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. A lineage represents a genetically...

In celebration of the International Day of Light, the Stellenbosch Laser Student Chapter presents a public lecture by Prof. Pieter Neethling, director of the

​​​The institutional theme at Stellenbosch University (SU) for May this year is “Connected to Africa” and on 25 May we celebrated Africa Day with the rest of the world. SU has nurtured relationships with many institutions in other African...