A team of orthopaedic surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital recently achieved a South African first when they performed an innovative limb reconstruction surgery that has only been done a handful of times in the world. The team of surgeons, also...

From the extremely driven, high-performance player to the social player and their supporters, one and all must feel and be welcome at the Maties hockey club. This is Anche Nortje, Maties Sport’s hockey club manager’s vision for one of...

World Health Day: 7 April 2025 Even though a third of South Africans experience a mental health condition and more than 27% are affected by depression, only 5% of the national healthcare budget is allocated to mental health services. Prof...

A new report by Stellenbosch University’s Research on Socio-Economic Policy (Resep) group highlights critical challenges in South African education, presenting new insights drawn from comprehensive administrative data. The study finds that...

​The Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) recently received substantial funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for an initiative to address some of the challenges of tuberculosis (TB). South Africa had the highest TB incidence in the...

31 May marks World No Tobacco day. The focus of World No Tobacco Day 2019 is on "tobacco and lung health." Lungs were made to breathe clean air, receiving oxygen from incoming air which enters the bloodstream, and allows carbon dioxide (a...

Prof Monika Esser, a Paediatric Rheumatology and Immunology Specialist and Head of the Immunology Unit of the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) at Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Health Sciences, retired...

Prof Monika Esser, a Paediatric Rheumatology and Immunology Specialist and Head of the Immunology Unit of the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) at Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Health Sciences, retired...

​​You shouldn't let her delicate hands and petite stature fool you. Dr Karin Baatjes' impressive title as Head of the Division of Anatomy and Histology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch, attests to her dynamism...

You shouldn't let her delicate hands and petite stature fool you. Dr Karin Baatjes' impressive title as Head of the Division of Anatomy and Histology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch, attests to her dynamism...