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New internship programme at SU clinics opens doors for aspiring medical receptionists
Rising basketball star graduates after giving his studies the full-court press
Overcoming challenges on the basketball court has helped rising sports star Lutho Skweyiya score a slam dunk in the academic arena as well.
The Maties...
SA’s first Global Minds PhD scholar graduates
Lynn Hendricks, lecturer in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences since 2022, has had quite the year...
Keeping our finger on the pulse of the renewed MBChB
In 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) introduced a renewed MBChB curriculum (see figure 1), as part of an institution-wide programme renewal process which is...
Maties Wine Club – Let's raise our glasses
Since its inception in 2020, the Maties Wine Club has connected alumni throughout Europe and South Africa. With our online wine tastings, we were able to come...
More than 50 first-generation SU students SOAR at December 2023 graduation
Last week, 56 first-generation students across various faculties who have passed through Stellenbosch University’s (SU) SOAR programme completed their academic...
Oscar and Rose Mpetha Memorial Lecture 2023
On 20th October 2023, the Transformation Office at Stellenbosch University (SU) hosted the Oscar and Rose Mpetha Memorial Lecture 2023. Oscar Mpetha, a key...