This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Malaria, HIV, pneumonia, and diarrhoea are the leading killers on the African continent, according to a recently released study looking at the burden of...

​South Africa's deciduous fruit (peaches, pears, apricots, mixed fruit) canning industry has been globally highly competitive over time and has maintained this competitive trend since the early 1960s, despite changing political, social and...

​Prof Nando Ferreira from the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department of Surgical Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at Stellenbosch University delivered his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 3 September...

​From being told that he should aspire to become an astronaut as he was “good for nothing on earth" to graduating this week from Stellenbosch University (SU) with a PhD in occupational therapy, Jerome Peter Boboo Fredericks has exceeded...

​Completing a second PhD is already quite an achievement, but Prof Minka Woermann, associate professor at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Philosophy Department, took the challenge one step further by obtaining a doctorate in Visual Arts, a...

​The International Day for Biological Diversity, also known as International Biodiversity Day, is celebrated each year on 22 May. In an opinion piece for the Cape Argus, Prof Michael Samways from the Department of Conservation Ecology and...

​YOUTH MONTH This Youth Month, we're celebrating students who are driving positive change on campus, in their communities and beyond. Through their leadership, compassion and commitment, they are helping to build a better future for South...

​When third-year medical student, Patience Phoshoko, was chosen to represent South Africa at the Asia Youth International Model United Nations, 2025, it was, in her words, “one of the most meaningful moments of my academic and leadership...

​Social grant beneficiaries, especially the elderly or single mothers, continue to be targeted by unregistered or informal lenders (commonly called loan sharks, mashonisas or skoppers) who use state social grants as security for high...

​​Students from Stellenbosch University (SU) will soon be able to test their data science mettle in solving real-world problems at a flagship hackathon hosted by the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking ​in partnership with...