​A delegation of Brazilian academics, representing around 20 higher education institutions and organised by the Brazilian Association of Rectors of State and Municipal Universities (ABRUEM), visited Stellenbosch University (SU) on 24 August...

​Prof Soraya Seedat from the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University (SU) proves that a clinician scientist can successfully straddle the fields of scientific research and clinical patient treatment. Wearing these two hats, she...

Prof Sean Chetty was appointed Executive Head of Stellenbosch University's Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care in mid-April, just as the Covid-19 virus was beginning to spread more rapidly in South Africa. As a result, he...

Accessible healthcare is a critical policy lever for moving out of poverty, says Dr Anja Smith, who forms part of RESEP, a group of researchers in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University. Along with her colleagues, Smith...

​All medicines have the potential to cause unwanted, uncomfortable or dangerous effects also known as adverse drug reactions (ADRs). “To protect patients and to identify and characterise evidence-based causal relationships between ADRs and...

​As African cities become increasingly urbanised, most households end up living in informal settlements, challenging urban planners on the obligation to build sustainable cities and communities. Also, the demand for energy grows. Because...

​Some Cape fur seal ( Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) mothers may nurse their young for several years longer than previously thought, thereby potentially improving their offspring's chances of survival. The observations of this unusual...

This article was first published on The Conversation . Read the original article here . The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent public health response of lockdown has brought into sharp relief the constraints faced by women across the...

​​​Dr Nthabiseng Moleko is used to wearing many hats. She is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, a poet, an author and serves as a commissioner on the Commission on Gender Equality. Despite being a...

Michael Allcock (5) is in the home straight of walking 50 km in support of Stellenbosch University's #Train4Fees campaign. In fact, the campaign's youngest fundraiser might even add a few kilometres to his goal now that the campaign's end...