This Women's Month, we're celebrating the academic staff at Stellenbosch University (SU) who are shaping minds and inspiring excellence through their teaching. These remarkable educators bring passion, innovation and dedication to the...

Vanessa Reyneke, a Project Coordinator in the General Linguistics Department at Stellenbosch University, and her husband, Johan, have embarked on the ambitious goal of raising R300 000 to help their two-year old Deaf daughter obtain two...

An international champion for human rights, Prof Sandra Liebenberg, HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law at Stellenbosch University (SU)'s Faculty of Law, serves on the prestigious United Nations (UN) Committee on Economic, Social and...

​ ​This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article here . Midlevel health workers can play an important role in addressing shortages of health professionals and improving access to care. This is especially...

Which herbal medicines can really help you lose weight? This is the question Dr Hanél Sadie-Van Gijsen from the Centre for Cardio-metabolic Research in Africa (CARMA) in the Division of Medical Physiology tried to answer in a recent article...

​Palliative care, or end-of-life care as it is commonly known, should also include spiritual care, argue Ronita Mahilall (doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) & Prof Leslie Swartz (Department of Psychology) in an...

​To maintain or restore public trust in science, scholarly publishing needs to ensure high-quality peer review and be prepared to sacrifice high scores on the public relations side in the interest of maintaining the integrity of science...

​International Literacy Day is observed annually on 8 September. In an opinion piece for the Cape Times, Dr Zelda Barends from the Department of Curriculum Studies writes that innovative teaching methods informed by evidence-based research...

​When the World Health Organisation (WHO) designated 2020 as the 'International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife', it envisaged a year-long effort to celebrate the work of nurses and midwives, to focus on the challenges they face globally...