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Prof Lindy Heinecken

Awards and milestones

Prof Lindy Heinecken receives the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award for her stellar career in military fraternity

Prof Lindy Heinecken
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Caption: Sociology and Social Anthropology Senior Lecturer Prof Lindy Heinecken and Associate Prof Alan Okros, Deputy Director of Research in the Dallaire...

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Two students head to Oxford

Awards and milestones

Two SU graduates to swap Eikestad for Oxford in 2026 as Rhodes Scholars

Kerry Porrill and Dr Nandipa Mponda from Stellenbosch University will swap the Eikestad for Oxford next year when they join a global cohort of more than 100...

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SU celebrates its big wins at the recent MACE Awards

Awards and milestones

SU scoops 27 accolades at annual national marketing and communication awards

This year’s annual Marketing, Advancement and Communication in Higher Education (MACE) Excellence Awards can best be summed up with the lyrics from Frankie...

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Prof Zheng and Ms Snyman Receiving an Award on behalf of the CISU in Xiamen, China

Education

Confucius Institute at Stellenbosch University Receives Recognition for Excellence in Digital Application and Practice

On 16 November, the First Confucius Institute Digital Application and Practice Case Selection Awards Ceremony took place during the 2025 World Chinese Language...

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A view of the library on the Stellenbosch campus.

Institutional news

SU secures leading positions in 2025 Shanghai Subject Rankings

If you are interested in studying Food Science & Technology, Biotechnology, Communication, Biological Sciences or Agricultural Sciences in South Africa, look no...

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Anell Daries & Jesse Le Roux

Campus life

New thinking in Faculty about SU’s past and future

By Desmond Thompson

When a study on “Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Coloured South African women” was published in 2019, it...

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SAYAS awards

Awards and milestones

Two young SU scientists recognised for excellence in their respective fields

Two scientists from Stellenbosch University (SU) have been inaugurated as members of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS). 

Dr Phila Msimang and Dr...

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At the Chancellor’s Lecture, South African-born Prof JM Coetzee and Tanzanian novelist Prof Abdulrazak Gurnah were in dialogue about how creative writing illuminates our shared humanity.

Arts, languages and social sciences

Literary giants probe writing, power and belonging in Chancellor’s Lecture

What, truly, is the meaning of the Nobel Prize for Literature? Who – writer, nation, language or market – does it finally serve? Might it be time, as JM Coetzee...

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 Tumelo Mokoena

Engineering and technology

Engineering first-year among Top 10 innovators at YouthX Nedbank Awards

First-year Electrical and Electronic Engineering student Tumelo Mokoena was recently named among South Africa’s top 10 innovators at the 2025 YouthX Nedbank...

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fulu

Awards and milestones

The University of Venda appoints Stellenbosch University alumnus Professor Fulufhelo (Fulu) Netswera as Vice Chancellor Research and Postgraduate Studies

Fulufhelo is a Development Sociology graduate of 2005 at Stellenbosch University. He says that his doctoral experience at Stellenbosch under the supervision of...

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