​​Prof Paul van Helden talks about tuberculosis (TB ) the way a military strategist might speak about an adversary. During more than 25 years of research he has come to know the disease intimately and has been instrumental in changing the...

​​​In his young days, Prof Gerhard Walzl was an ambitious internist and lung specialist wanting to put his expertise to use in intensive care units. However, the position he had hoped for after his PhD studies overseas was no longer...

​World Tuberculosis (TB) Day was observed on 24 March. In an opinion piece for the Daily Maverick, Drs Dillon Wademan (Desmond Tutu TB Centre) and Amrita Daftary (York University) write that many people who are affected by TB experience its...

​Prof Thuli Madonsela, Director of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), has a vivid memory of where she was 30 years ago on 27 April 1994, the day that South Africa became a true democracy. As presiding officer of the Hillbrow polling...

​​A USB MBA Modular group, accompanied by Prof Mias de Klerk, head: Research at USB, recently went to Montreal, Canada, as part of their International Study Module. They attended the module – Managing around the world: International...

​Dr Farhana Kajee recently joined the Faculty of Education as senior lecturer in the Department Education Policy Studies. She shared about her passions and life lessons she learned along the way. Where did you work before you accepted the...

Dr Margaret Blackie, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, has been appointed as SU Teaching Fellow from 2020​. Dr Blackie is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science. She has been at SU since January 2010...

​The SU Teaching Fellowships offer eminent academics with a track record of involvement with teaching-learning-assessment (TLA) and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning support and opportunities over one to three years to enhance and...

​​Lecturers from the Faculty of Science are involved in two new books on the use of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) to improve teaching and learning in tertiary courses in the natural sciences. The books, Enhancing Science Education...

​​​​​​​Dear students At the start of the November assessment period at Stellenbosch University (SU), I would like to wish you all the best with your exam preparation, final studies for the year, writing of papers and submission of year-end...