The lack of income, the initial cessation of food projects in some provinces, the mismanagement of food parcels, together with the severe contraction of the economy, contributed to the fact that most poor families in South Africa had no...

​#WorldHeartDay is celebrated annually on 29 September and we, at Campus Health Service, #UseHeart despite the COVID-19 Lockdown to spread the word about what you can do to protect your heart. The theme for 2020 from the World Heart...

​A new report by the Stellenbosch University (SU) Law Clinic reveals that unscrupulous lenders continue to fleece poor South African debtors with deductions of up to 75% of their monthly wages leaving them with little to no income to...

​​The article with the title The case for avoiding price controls in times of crisis: they don't work , written by Prof Willem Boshoff, Co-Director of the Centre for Competition Law and Economics at Stellenbosch University, was published by...

The murky political history of tobacco offers the opportunity to dispassionately unpack the puritanical, moral, industrial protectionist and scientific arguments for and against the cigarette ban, writes Dr Elijah Doro (Department of...

Cape Town's community health workers are helping to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic by delivering medication to the houses of people in high-risk groups, writes Prof Bob Mash (Family Medicine and Primary Care) and his co-authors in...

​​“The African dream is often referred to as a dying fire, waiting to be revived. What log(s) do we have in our hands to reignite it?" asked Prof Thuli Madonsela, former South African public protector and distinguished professor at...

​Three researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) walked away with top honours at the annual National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)/ South32Awards. Dr Richard Walls and Profs Christine Lochner and Conrad Matthee were announced...

Accessible healthcare is a critical policy lever for moving out of poverty, says Dr Anja Smith, who forms part of RESEP, a group of researchers in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University. Along with her colleagues, Smith...

​​​​Stellenbosch University is celebrating 30 years of internationalisation this year and SU International is preparing for an external peer review – lots of looking back happening… Can looking back, be looking forward? The review is...