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Dr Thembani Dube, a lecturer in the Department of History at SU, capped her sister, Sukoluhle Linda Duba, a junior lecturer at the Department of Economics, on graduation day.
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Linda Dube played on through grief to earn her master’s degree

In the early hours of 4 December 2024 in Kimberley, far from home and in the middle of a football tournament where she represented Stellenbosch University (SU)...
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Prof Herman Engelbrecht helps build systems for virtual worlds

Prof Herman Engelbrecht helps build systems for virtual worlds

Prof Herman Engelbrecht from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University delivered his...

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SU scholar wins prestigious fellowship at Oxford

SU scholar wins prestigious fellowship at Oxford

​A top academic at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Dr Gibson Ncube, has just heard he has been selected for a...

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AI in Africa is about people, language and contextual innovation – and higher education can help

AI in Africa is about people, language and contextual innovation – and higher education can help

​African artificial intelligence (AI) is about people. As the Stellenbosch University (SU) representative in AHEEN, I was struck by the story of a data science...

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Major impetus for strengthening climate resilient agriculture in the Western Cape

Major impetus for strengthening climate resilient agriculture in the Western Cape

​​​Research on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and communities in the Western Cape were high on the agenda during the signing of a Memorandum of...

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PhD candidate awarded coveted Women in Science prize

PhD candidate awarded coveted Women in Science prize

Esther Uwimaana is one of 30 women scientists on the continent being recognised for their work by the 14th L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Young Talents...

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New surveillance toolkit to bolster infection prevention and control efforts in NICUs

New surveillance toolkit to bolster infection prevention and control efforts in NICUs

The NeoIPC Consortium, of which Stellenbosch University is a member, has launched a new surveillance toolkit to help neonatal intensive care units (NICUs)...

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