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Stellenbosch University launches #GivingMaties, 40-day drive to fight student hunger
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First-generation SU medical graduate proves that dreams rooted in small places can travel far
Roossenekal, a 2,5 km² dot on the Limpopo map, is the kind of town “where the horizon feels close and the ceiling of dreams even closer”. But for Reuben Lefa...
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SU’s Handlab and Book Dash open new worlds for Deaf children
A quiet revolution underway in early childhood literacy didn’t begin in a classroom, but in a studio where Deaf storytellers rehearse, sign and retell African...
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‘Skut gat and dala’ – pioneering Master’s research captures the lived reality of Winelands womxn
“Coloured* identity needs a bietjie room to breathe.” This line from Chérise Adams’ Master’s thesis stays with the reader and only crystallises once you grasp...
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Dr Florence de Vries’ PhD shaped by loss, purpose and care
Dr Florence de Vries has spent her career thinking carefully about the power of storytelling – who wields it, who benefits from it and who can be harmed by the...
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Deaf student graduates with BSc Honours degree
Deaf with a capital D and proud of it!
It is with this attitude that Trevolin Pillay will walk over the stage this week to be capped with a BSc Honours degree in...
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Purpose amid the pain – renowned radiologist Prof Jan Lotz graduates with a PhD at 78
At 78, an age when many of his peers are enjoying a quiet retirement, Emeritus Professor Jan Lotz has crossed the podium to receive his PhD in Applied Ethics...