​​What does the Springbok Captain Eben Etzebeth and his All Black counterpart Beauden Barret, have in common? Both were in the news for suffering from concussion in the past month. Add to that the names of Warren Whitely, Martin du Toit...

Grade 4 to Grade 7 (Intermediate Phase) Maths teachers in under-resourced schools in the Eastern Cape are not proficient in English, the language they are supposed to teach in, and their knowledge of mathematic content is not up to scratch...

Prof Dion Forster from the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology and the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology at Stellenbosch University recently delivered his professorial inaugural lecture titled 'Living more decently in...

When Dr Teresa David came to Stellenbosch University (SU) in 2015, she could say only one phrase in English: “Good morning." Born and raised in Angola where Portuguese is the official language, David had never studied in anything other than...

​​The documentary Black Christmas tells the painful but poignant story of how one of the perpetrators of the 1996 Christmas Eve bombing in Worcester found redemption and forgiveness in the same community he had once hated and struck at. The...

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed major challenges to public health medicine specialists. For Extraordinary Professor Hassan Mahomed, who has been at the forefront of coordinating the response in the Western Cape, it has been an especially...

Three Stellenbosch University Academics were recently recognised for their contribution to Entrepreneurship Learning and Teaching in the Higher Education sector of South Africa at the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE)...

It was the African proverb “if you climb up fast enough, you must pull others up" that inspired fourth-year medical student Lindokuhle Mazibuko to start a tutorship project for Khayelitsha school children, aimed at improving their marks...

This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article here . South Africa reported its first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 5 March 2020. In the weeks that followed the country saw decisive...

In 2014 Stellenbosch University started a programme where our top researchers are honoured with Distinguished Professorships. The title was created to recognise academics who have reached the pinnacle of achievement in their university...