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Twin triumph: Atlantis brothers graduate from SU

The Blackenberg twins’ journey with Stellenbosch University (SU) began in high school – and this week, they graduated together from the same faculty. Born in...
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Mom gets to cap son on graduation day

Mom gets to cap son on graduation day

The ecstatic celebrations of graduation day sometimes obscure the harrowing struggles students and their families endure to make it to the finishing line. For...

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Blind Paralympic swimmer makes waves with historic LLD degree

Blind Paralympic swimmer makes waves with historic LLD degree

​​The blind South African Paralympic swimmer and medal winner, Hendri Herbst, is the perfect embodiment of the saying “where there is a will, there is a way"...

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Adventurous doctor with a heart of gold gets 7 distinctions

Adventurous doctor with a heart of gold gets 7 distinctions

​​​A week before her November exams at Stellenbosch University (SU) commenced, a final year medical student did something extraordinary. Sarah Camp (25) cycled...

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Popular journalist obtains master’s degree for research on payment model for media

Popular journalist obtains master’s degree for research on payment model for media

Award-winning journalist Carryn-Ann Nel has overcome many obstacles in her long career, but the most difficult challenge she set for herself was to obtain a...

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Rising basketball star graduates after giving his studies the full-court press

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.  

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SA’s first Global Minds PhD scholar graduates

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...

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