Physician and rheumatologist Dr Riëtte du Toit has recently been appointed as senior lecturer and new head of the Division of Rheumatology at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Du Toit, who has been involved...

Alison Barr, Hlanzeka Mpanza and Anja Lategan will forever go down in the annals of Stellenbosch University (SU) as trailblazers. They are the first three students to graduate with an MSc degree in Food and Nutrition Security from the...

​Stellenbosch University medical student, Keaton Harris, has once again been recognized for his innovative start-up business, InforMED. This time he was crowned, above some of the country's top start-up businesses, as the South African...

Telehealth has come a long way since the days of landline and two-way radio chats between health practitioners who found themselves in different locations. These days patients and caregivers can access advice, consultations, training and...

This is the story that audiences at Stellenbosch University engaged with at the screening of Whispering Truth to Power. The award-winning documentary was screened at the University Museum on 11 April 2019. Whispering Truth to Power...

​​From South Africa's indigenous Southern Cape forests to Tanzania, from the Miombo woodland in Zambia to North Ethiopia and West Africa – that's where their research has taken six new graduates of the Department of Forest and Wood Science...

World Malaria Day (WMD) is an international observance commemorated every year on 25 April and recognizes global efforts to control malaria. Globally, 3.3 billion people in 106 countries are at risk of malaria. Since 2000, malaria-affected...

​​​​In celebration of Freedom Day later this week, the Stellenbosch University Transformation Office recently hosted a panel discussion on “Freedom of Expression in South Africa" at the Stellenbosch University Museum, with Professor Pierre...

​​​​​​Dr Margreth Tadie, a lecturer in the Process Engineering Department and Dr Debra Rossouw, a biotechnologist at the Stellenbosch University's Institute for Wine Biotechnology, are two of 30 scientists in Africa to have been selected...

​With an undergraduate nursing programme having been reinstated this year at Stellenbosch University (SU), it is an exciting time to be at the helm of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery. “The programme offers a transformative journey...