​Respect and dignity. These two words emerge frequently when interviewing the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science's (FHMS) newly appointed Manager: Student Affairs. In her new position Ms Khairoonisa Foflonker will have to, among others...

On Friday (16 December 2016), we celebrate Reconciliation Day. In an opinion piece in Cape Argus on Wednesday (14 December 2016), Prof Nico Koopman, Vice-Rector: Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel, writes that reconciliation...

Newly appointed extraordinary professor at the Centre for Social Justice. Human Rights Commissioner marking 30 years of Constitution, TRC and GEAR. Scholar-activist advancing horizontal accountability and intergenerational dialogue.

​​​​When the COVID-pandemic entered our lives in March 2020, Stellenbosch University's staff and students had to weather lots of storms to keep afloat. Where there were holes, they fixed it, oars needed, they've built it and when the mist...

​More than 650 people took part in the Platbos Forest reforestation programme recently, with students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) enthusiastically paving the way toward restoring this indigenous forest and the...

​September is International Deaf Awareness Month. In an opinion piece for the Mail & Guardian, Susan Njeyiyana from the Department of General Linguistics writes that we must do more to break down the prejudice against sign languages. Read...

The recently retired Executive Head of the Department of Medicine at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Prof Helmuth Reuter, reflects on his diverse four-decade career in medicine. Born in Namibia...

With the Western Cape now being in the lead with confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, the peaking community transmissions are concentrated in the poor and overcrowded townships in the Cape Town metropole. Mrs Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola, Director...

​ ​Marie Prinsloo (photo), an alumnus of the Visual Arts Department, recently illustrated her first children's book, a children's Bible named Bible Stories for Children, which was narrated by Wendy Maartens and published by Random House...

​ ​A new study on the paleo-historical geographic range of the endangered African penguin since the last Ice Age paints a grave picture of a species in steep decline. Imagine the view from the western coastline of southern Africa during the...