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Maties Sport
Champion Across Codes, Shanidine Bezuidenhout secures another Gold
Former Maties netball player and 2022 Varsity Netball champion raised eyebrows when she scored the first try for the Maties Women’s rugby team in their opening match of the 2025 FNB Varsity Cup. The postgraduate student graduated last year...
Stellenbosch University
From pain a passion takes flight for SU history graduate
What started as a hobby to cope with pain evolved into an academic journey. Living with a chronic illness led Annie de Villiers to find solace in birding. She has travelled extensively to share the so-called ‘crane gospel’ about the...
Stellenbosch University
Stories improve kids’ literacy skills
Today (8 September 2016) in International Literacy Day. In an opinion piece published in Cape Argus, Dr Suzanne Ross of the Language Centre at Stellenbosch University writes about how storybooks can help improve the literacy skills of...
Stellenbosch University
An aversion to nonsense
Journalist. Lecturer. Ombudsman. Writer. A man with a very definite aversion to nonsense. One whose ideas about fairness and what’s right or wrong are aligned with the contents of the South African press code. That, in short, is Prof George...
Stellenbosch University
Many women still not benefitting from HIV prevention programmes
Readily available HIV testing and treatment has not yet shaped the sexual relationships of women in South Africa, writes Dr Lario Viljoen from the Desmond Tutu TB Centre in a doctoral-based opinion piece published in Cape Times (7 June)...
Stellenbosch University
Amazon research award for SU computer science student
Mr David Baker Effendi, an MSc-student in Computer Sciences at Stellenbosch University, has received an Amazon Research Award based on his innovative research in program analysis with applications in bug-finding and cybersecurity. The...
Stellenbosch University
The Go Pro surgeon with the heart of a researcher: Prof Karin Baatjes
Earlier this year, surgeon Prof Karin Baatjes made headlines by successfully demonstrating that portable GoPro cameras, a favourite among outdoor enthusiasts, can be used equally well to train students in surgical procedures. It provides...
Stellenbosch University
World Children’s Day: Collaboration crucial to fight TB meningitis in SA’s children
World Children's Day is observed annually on 20 November. In an opinion piece for the Cape Times, Prof Regan Solomons (Department of Paediatrics and Child Health) emphasises the importance of collaboration between the government...
Stellenbosch University
Research into elephants’ sense of smell reveals a “group odour” among herd members
African elephants share a so-called “herd odour" that helps them recognise members of their herd based on smell. This has more to do with the bacteria they share when going about their ritualised greeting ceremonies than the fact that they...
Stellenbosch University
Resonant leadership in the public sector can drive caring, serving
The following was published in the Cape Times column Songololo: In my words... by Dr Sharil Haricharan ( Cape Times of 21-12-2015): Tuning into emotions of others “Our managers need to be able to wear the shoes of the grassroot levels...