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Institutional news
A joyful celebration filled with blessings for SU’s 13th Rector and Vice-Chancellor
Institutional news
SU honours internationally recognised disaster-management and response expert
The Western Cape provincial government’s Chief Director: Disaster Management and Fire and Rescue Services, Colin Deiner, received an honorary doctorate from...
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...
Institutional news
Infectious disease specialist appointed BMRI director
The internationally renowned infectious disease specialist Prof Jean B Nachega has been appointed Full Professor of Infectious Diseases and part-time Director...
Media release
SU strengthens ties with Université Paris-Saclay during high-level French visit
Stellenbosch University (SU) recently hosted a high-level delegation from the Paris Region (Île-de-France) as part of a broader regional mission to South Africa...
Media release
‘A perfect match’: SU hosts Bavarian delegation to power innovation
If you were in Stellenbosch earlier this week and noticed a motorcade with flashing blue lights sweeping down Ryneveld Street, you were witnessing history in...
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...