​Mphumezi Hombana, (42) has just received his second master's degree in Theology at Stellenbosch University (SU), despite the fact that everyone has discouraged him from this field of study. "Where I come from, people judge you according to...

The CNV Research Group studies the blood-brain barrier to better understand and combat neurodegenerative diseases.

Learn about Stellenbosch University’s alumni mission, vision, and values. Meet the DAR team and discover how Maties stay connected globally through lifelong alumni engagement.

​Dear students Last weekend, in the early hours of the morning, a white student in Huis Marais intruded into a black student’s room and urinated on his belongings. While neither the victim nor the perpetrator is a student in our faculty, it...

Dr Nicola de Jager, a senior lecturer in the Political Science Department, was recently selected as one of 13 African scholars to be awarded the prestigious Africa Oxford Initiative Fellowship (AfOx) from The University of Oxford. De Jager...

​​Stellenbosch University (SU) recently celebrated Africa University Day by shining a spotlight on its varied and impactful research and collaborative activities with its African partners through the African Collaboration Grant (ACG) during...

On 16 February, the 2026 Year of the Horse Spring Festival was celebrated with a Chinese New Year Gala jointly organised by the Confucius Institute at Stellenbosch University and the Department of Modern Foreign Languages. The event...

A microbiologist from Stellenbosch University (SU), Dr Wesaal Khan, is part of an international consortium of specialists that have been tasked to develop a range of sustainable solar disinfection (SODIS) technologies that will provide...

How to handle water and waste in your household when you live in an informal settlement such as Enkanini, are some of the life skills that learners will acquire after completing a unique course, developed as part of a collaboration between...

​​A new national facility for water and soil analysis is currently being set up at Stellenbosch University. The new facility will form one of the nodes of BIOGRIP, a national research infrastructure platform hosted by UCT and with nodes at...