Three outstanding members of the Stellenbosch University (SU) community were honoured at the prestigious Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) and Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC) Innovation Awards, held at Cape Town City Hall...

XX March 2023: Following months of deliberation, Stellenbosch Network has crowned Chuma Lalendle and Sbahle Mgijima as the winners of the fourth edition of the #IdeasForChange Challenge.

Few student-athletes embody the Maties Sport spirit quite like Keenan Horne. A former Maties Hockey standout, Keenan balanced his academic pursuits, completing a BCom (Law), LLB, and LLM at Stellenbosch University, with a stellar career on...

The third annual Walter Parry Memorial Lecture honoured educator and pioneer Eva Johnson. Johnson became the first Lückhoff High School alumna to earn a master’s degree in 1986. Speakers reflected on overlooked educational histories and the...

Fulbright Scholarship: Dr. Melody Neaves from Stellenbosch University won a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct aerospace superalloy research at Ohio State University in 2027. Research Focus: Her work investigates how 3D-printed superalloys...

Two Stellenbosch University (SU) researchers have recently been selected to be part of the prestigious Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship at Harvard University in the United States of America. Dr Debra Shepherd, a lecturer at...

As a student-athlete at Stellenbosch University, you learn how to be independent and take responsibility for your actions. “As a Matie, I learned very quickly how to be independent. I had to learn about tasks like budgeting and time...

At its meeting on 11 April 2022, the Stellenbosch University (SU) Council received an overview of progress in Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies at the institution the past decade from Prof Eugene Cloete, whose second term as...

​​Researchers used isotope hydrology techniques to develop a pioneering method to assess how different sources of water sources contribute to river flow dynamis. Dr Andrew Watson, a post-doctoral fellow in the School for Climate Studies at...

The Spesbona damselfly is one of the few "chameleons" of the dragonfly world and quite unique to the insect world at that. Both the male and female of this endangered fynbos species change from royal blue to a much darker brown within...