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PhD candidate's first poetry collection published
The first poetry manuscript to be penned by Ms Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese, a doctoral candidate of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, has been published by Botsotso. Busuku-Mathese, who...
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Music programme turns passion into career
Students in the SU Conservatoire's Certificate Programme learn more than just music theory and to play an instrument – they learn how to turn their passion into a career. A few years ago, when a student from Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape...
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Babies born to mums with HIV face higher risks even though they’re HIV negative
This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article here . One of the most remarkable public health successes of the last decade in southern Africa has been the reduction in the number of babies born with HIV...
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Quality mentorship empowers women in engineering
The International Women in Engineering Day was celebrated on Friday 23 June. In an opinion piece for News24, Drs Karen Garner & Chantelle van Staden (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) wrote that quality mentorship helps...
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Being and becoming an Abe
From the world of Harry Potter, a scammer in Ethiopia, a play in the West End and some serious academic reflection in Scotland – the Abe Bailey Tour was everything I had hoped for, writes Tevarus Naicker. But it didn't come easily. I saw...
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The story of Milo Pillay, the strongman who lifted a bar for South African sports
This article was first published in The Conversation . Read the original article here . A vast international body of literature exists on sports under apartheid. Yet there's hardly any scholarship on South African black weightlifting...
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What Level 3 risk adjustment means for SU and payment relief measures
25 May 2020Dear StudentOver the past eight weeks we as Stellenbosch University community have experienced first-hand how our daily activities have been transferred to the virtual world, a reality that will invariably become a feature of...
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A ‘values crisis’ underpins the coupled biodiversity and climate emergency
The undervaluation of nature is foundational to the environmental crises currently being faced in the world. A recent paper, titled “ Diverse Values of Nature in Sustainability", highlights that decision making processes focussing on short...
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TB research shows a good diet can cut infections by nearly 50%
This article was originally published on The Conversation. For centuries, we have known that tuberculosis is a social disease. It thrives on poverty and social factors such as malnutrition, poor housing, overcrowding, unsafe work...
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Why mentorship matters for young women in STEM professions
Thursday (11 February) is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In an opinion piece for News24, Dr Linda Zuze from RESEP (Research on Socioeconomic Policy) in the Department of Economics argues that peer mentoring could be...