​​​​first published at Making of Cities I wander through cities and hear them humming around me. They are creatures, machines, fixtures, breathers, parts and pieces, relationships, conduits, conductors, caretakers and crushers. Each city...

​first published at Making of Cities​ I wander through cities and hear them humming around me. They are creatures, machines, fixtures, breathers, parts and pieces, relationships, conduits, conductors, caretakers and crushers. Each city has...

​​Collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships between the public and private sector, academic institutions and civil society is the only way to create solutions for the challenges facing the African continent. This was the take-home...

As head of the Stellenbosch University (SU) Archives based in the responsibility centre of the Registrar, Karlien Breedt serves as gatekeeper of our institutional memory. Her passion for her work – entailing anything from working with...

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." With these powerful words from an Ethiopian proverb, Prof Thuli Madonsela once again wove meaning and unity into the moment - this time at the 4th Annual #Action4Inclusion Social Justice...

​​In what promises to be a ground-breaking initiative in the battle against climate change, Stellenbosch University (SU) officially launched its School for Climate Studies – the first of its kind with faculty status in South Africa – on...

In May 2013 marine biologists were stunned by the news of the first ever sighting of a grey whale south of the equator, just off the coast of Namibia in Walvis Bay. Could this whale reflect a remnant of an Atlantic population long thought...

​Dragonflies are natural sentinels of our freshwater resources, signalling the health of aquatic ecosystems. To ensure the long-term survival of these insects, and other creatures that share their habitats, we must include them more widely...

Dr James Lloyd from the Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB) attended the fourth European Starch Round Table, dedicated to starch biology and technology, in Lille, France, during November 2016. This meeting brought together individuals...

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we at the SPL share that our colleague and friend Shima has passed away.​ Eduardo Shimahara (fondly known as Shima) was born in Brazil and has been living in Cape Town since 2013. He left a career as a...