​The year 2020 has been nothing but a shock not only to South Africans but the whole world. The Covid-19 pandemic caused a disruption to the world of academia in a way we never imagined. We found ourselves having to 'lock down' our face-to...

​​Satire is not only the realm of stand-up comedians and cartoonists. It is also the domain of contemporary jewellers, if a recent award-winning portfolio of SU visual arts lecturer Ms. Joani Groenewald is anything to go by. “My pieces are...

A new way of learning and assessment was designed by Delecia Davids, a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education. Davids developed a game-based way of learning and assessment with the design of digital escape rooms specifically for the field of...

Single mothers living in high-risk communities afflicted by poverty and crime can benefit from parenting programmes that focus on their personal wellness. This is one of the findings of a recent doctoral study at Stellenbosch University (SU...

​After a successful second year, the team behind the social impact project “Overcoming Career Circumscription and Compromise" – which offers career guidance to Grade 9 learners in under-resourced communities – is now focusing its attention...

​SU's Rector and Vice-chancellor, Prof Wim de Villiers announced late last year that 2020 will be the university's Year for Persons with Disability. It will culminate in the sixth African Network for Evidence-to- Action in Disability...

​​The Development and Alumni Relations Division's Always a Matie series of short films as well as its newly launched video series, Matie pioneers and legends, will soon be on a TV screen near you! These short films will be screened on DStv...

​​Ten prominent researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) were honoured by the National Research Foundation (NRF) at the annual NRF Awards held on Thursday 1 September 2022. The awards recognise and celebrate South African research...

Next year, when medical student Jessica Davies continues in her role as Tygerberg Academic Affairs Council Chairperson as well as class representative for her fellow fifth-year MBChB V classmates, she will ensure that the changes she helped...

​​​​​​When first-year postgraduate LLB student Willem Sterrenberg Horn first stood for election as a house committee member in 2019, he was the only non-heterosexual candidate. This year, however, there were multiple non-heterosexual...