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Clio and KD Sass on their graduation day.
Image by: Henk Oets

Media release

Sass twins honour their activist mom, an SU alumna, on graduation day

In the early 1980’s a young medical student’s dreams came crashing down. As an activist protesting the injustices of apartheid, Patricia Grace Rorich was...
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Mandela Day 2024

Mandela Day 2024

FM makes Sizamile Daycare a colourful and safe place for 60 children in Kayamandi

Every year on 18 July, Mandela Day, the team from Facilities Management...

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SU moves its internal audit function to Senior Director: Operations

SU moves its internal audit function to Senior Director: Operations

Stellenbosch University moved its internal audit function at the beginning of 2024 to form part of the Senior Director: Operations, Irfaan Dalvie's portfolio...

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7th Women’s Day takes us back to our roots

7th Women’s Day takes us back to our roots

For the seventh time this year, more than two hundred women of SU's RC Operations and Finance accepted Prof Stan du Plessis, our COO's invitation to came...

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Innovus's Doris Peters receives SARIMA Excellence award

Innovus's Doris Peters receives SARIMA Excellence award

Innovus's Venture Support Manager, Doris Peters, received the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA) award for professional...

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Global Hunger Crisis in Focus at SU’s 2024 International Social Justice Conference and Social Justice Summit

Global Hunger Crisis in Focus at SU’s 2024 International Social Justice Conference and Social Justice Summit

As the world confronts the devastating reality that nearly 2.4 billion people – almost 30% of the global population – lack adequate access to food,1 Stellenbosc...

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