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A joyful celebration filled with blessings for SU’s 13th Rector and Vice-Chancellor

The informal celebration of the inauguration of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) new Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Deresh Ramjugernath, started on a festive...
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A Day in the Life: Marieta van Wyk

A Day in the Life: Marieta van Wyk

​​Marieta van Wyk plays a key role at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Transport Services where she has been working for almost 30 years. She is known as a pillar...

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Writer in residence in Amsterdam

Writer in residence in Amsterdam

​​Dr Alfred Schaffer, the 2021 winner of the prestigious Dutch PC Hooft Prize, is in the Netherlands at the invitation of the Dutch Foundation for Literature an...

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Internationalisation increases the quality of education and research for students and staff

Internationalisation increases the quality of education and research for students and staff

The Department of Curriculum Studies hosted a delegation from the College of Education at  North Carolina State University from 3 April until 23 April.  The...

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Food security a "three worlds" problem

Food security a "three worlds" problem

The three worlds that South Africans simultaneously occupy in one country seriously impede food security on a household level for all citizens. It is a given...

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Prof Catherine du Toit looks at climate change through lens of crime fiction

Prof Catherine du Toit looks at climate change through lens of crime fiction

​Prof Catherine du Toit from the Department of Modern Foreign Languages in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University delivered her...

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A Day in the Life: Fiona van Kerwel

A Day in the Life: Fiona van Kerwel

​As the Manager of Words Open Worlds, or WOW, Fiona van Kerwel has been playing an important role for 20 years in growing the potential of especially young...

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