​More than 1 million South Africans between the ages of 20 and 50 are affected by adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), says Dr Renata Schoeman, psychiatrist and University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) top MBA...

Several members of the Maties Parasport Club became national champions in their respective disciplines and some even achieved Paralympic qualifying times or distances at the Nedbank National Championships for the Physically Disabled last...

​​​​​​​​Last year, the Department of Agronomy at Stellenbosch University (SU) was delighted with the donation of an Equalizer minimum till plot planter by the Cape Town firm Theebo Tech. This planter was to play an instrumental role in...

A new method of male contraception that is as effective as a vasectomy, but will be entirely reversible and has little or no side-effects, is expected to become available within the next two years. "If successful, this will drastically...

If educational leadership were to be inspired by the concern for public responsibility and social justice, it will allow educational discourses to focus on respect for others and difference, critical imagination, and deliberative engagement...

A BSc honours student from Stellenbosch University not only rediscovered a plant species that was last seen in 1928, and presumed to be extinct, but will also focus on the plant for his MSc in order to develop a management plant for its...

​Scientists have recorded the first documented appearance of the rare siphonophore Rhizophysa eysenhardtii in False Bay, South Africa. Published in African Invertebrates, this discovery extends the known range of the species by 450 km and...

Stellenbosch University (SU)'s Division for Research Development (DRD) won two national awards on Wednesday (24th May 2017) for its contribution towards research management in Southern Africa. The DRD won the Organisational Award for...

​With its unique approach and dedicated team of healthcare workers, the new stroke unit at Tygerberg Hospital is already making great strides in helping to address South Africa's stroke burden. Research indicates that dedicated care units...

​​​Populations of indigenous people in southern Africa carry a gene that causes lighter skin, and scientists have now identified the rapid evolution of this gene in recent human history. The gene that causes lighter skin pigmentation...