​For Tembaletu Nyandeni, travelling to Washington DC for the annual meeting of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) was a dream come true. It was the first time this young man from Khayelitsha, who is involved in a world-wide study on...

​Although gender equality is an age-old discussion, it remains a controversial topic. Two prominent researchers in the field, Ronald Burke and Susan Vinnicombe, argue that gender has become a "business issue" rather than merely a "woman's...

In March (2017), when sports manufacturer Nike launched its “Nike Pro Hijab", it made obvious business sense. What Nike - perhaps inadvertently ̶ has done, is to legitimise the hijab across two very different narratives. One is in response...

This initiative, a partnership between Stellenbosch University (SU), Sharing Abundant Life Together (SALT) and the Department of Health (DoH), largely serves the Dunoon area where many women are HIV positive and unemployed. There is a huge...

​​The 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children kick off on Monday (November 25). In an opinion article for Die Burger, Dr Marianne Strydom of the Department of Social Work writes about how children's rights are still...

​​​Religious leaders and faith communities can and should play an important role in preventing and responding to gender-based violence. Unfortunately they are often contributing to the beliefs, norms and practices that facilitate and...

​When patients with acute trauma-related pain enter emergency centres (ECs), the first healthcare personnel they encounter are professional nurses who must assess and manage their pain. As the frontline healthcare workers in ECs, nurses...

​Tuesday 8 June was World Oceans Day. In an opinion piece for News24, Prof Sophie von der Heyden (Department of Botany and Zoology) writes that we should treasure our oceans now more than ever because without them there would be no life...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous pressure on the health services to find ways to provide ongoing care for patients with chronic conditions, such as diabetes. The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at Stellenbosch...

​Engineers and scientists from Stellenbosch University have developed a visualisation tool that can automatically localise and quantify specific cellular processes such as mitochondrial fission and fusion – and that in three-dimensional...