​​A bursary is the equivalent of a key – instrumental in unlocking students’ potential and enabling them to achieve the goals they have set themselves. This is especially true for Kelly Turner from Strandfontein and Thembalethu Seyisi from...

With an 80-41 victory over UWC in their first match of the 2017 Varsity Netball competition on Sunday, the Maties Netball team showed that they will give everything they have to represent Maties the best way they possibly can during the...

​South Africa's first Smoke and Tobacco-free campus will be celebrating its success on World No Tobacco Day 2019, marked on 31 May. On 1 January 2019, Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) became South...

Giving is synonymous with Mandela Day, which is celebrated annually on the late Madiba's birthday on 18 July. In the spirit of Mandela Day, Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) have arranged a number...

Dr Lieketseng Ned, a researcher in the Department of Global Health, was recently appointed as the country representative for South Africa for the Community-Based Rehabilitation Africa Network. This is the latest in a number of key...

​When confronted with financial, medical, legal and public documents that influence your life, you want them to be comprehensible and clear. If such documents are written in plain language, it would be so much easier to read and understand...

Faith-based organisations (FBOs) can help to empower those who are economically deprived by equipping them with job skills and by restoring their human dignity.This is according to Dr Susan Mellows who obtained her PhD in Practical Theology...

The Division of Nephrology was accredited as a Regional Training Centre for the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) for a period of five years. The accreditation runs from 2021 to 2026, and at the end of the term there will be an...

​​More than 150 families have been positively impacted by the Tygerberg Biokinetics Paediatric Rheumatology Clinic, which Su-ané Zwiegelaar – who graduated cum laude with a Master's degree in Sports Science at Stellenbosch University's (SU)...

​Tjaart van der Walt was born completely deaf in both ears. He also has severe tunnel vision that impacts his ability to see and has a third condition that causes very bad balance problems. He can't obtain his drivers' licence and struggles...