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Noku Katom
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Theology graduate is proof that education has no expiry date

When teenage pregnancy and early parenting felt like a double-edged sword, Noku Katom made a life-changing decision: She would “go and fetch herself”. This week...
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SU students and alumni off to Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology and Medicine

SU students and alumni off to Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology and Medicine

Four young scientists and alumni from Stellenbosch University (SU) will be part of the group of nine young South African scientists who have been selected to...

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World Environment Day: Civil disobedience and the climate activist movement

World Environment Day: Civil disobedience and the climate activist movement

​​​World Environment Day is observed annually on 5 June. In an opinion piece for News24, Prof Oilver Ruppel from the Department of Mercantile Law writes that...

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Outcome of motions - Extraordinary meeting of the SU Convocation

Outcome of motions - Extraordinary meeting of the SU Convocation

The Management of Stellenbosch University (SU) notes the outcome of the extraordinary meeting of the Convocation held on the evening of Thursday, 1 June 2023...

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African solutions needed to help identify SA’s unknown dead — Kathryn Smith

African solutions needed to help identify SA’s unknown dead — Kathryn Smith

​South Africa is grappling with a silent mass disaster of missing and unidentified people that requires collaborative interventions and solutions unique to our...

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Enter our June-July photo competition celebrating World Environment Day 2023

Enter our June-July photo competition celebrating World Environment Day 2023

​​This year the theme for World Environment Day 2023 reminds us that our actions on plastic pollution matters. Stellenbosch University's Environmental...

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