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Policy Playbook leverages AI to fast-track the fight against GBV

South Africa faces many critical challenges, but few are as pervasive and devastating as Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF). In a historic move...
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Chancellor's Awards honour staff's excellent performance

Chancellor's Awards honour staff's excellent performance

This week, Stellenbosch University (SU) gave recognition to a cohort of staff members whose careers attest to sustained excellence in research, innovation...

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Small Things Fund Founder Dr Rhoda Malgas receives PhD for study about indigenous teas

Small Things Fund Founder Dr Rhoda Malgas receives PhD for study about indigenous teas

Conservation Ecology lecturer and founder of the student-centred Small Things Fund, Dr Rhoda Malgas, received her PhD in Conservation Ecology from Stellenbosch...

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Psychology student overcomes anxiety and graduates with Masters' degree

Psychology student overcomes anxiety and graduates with Masters' degree

When Michaela Chloë Moodley graduated on Monday, 5 December, it was the culmination of eight years of hard work, during which she faced numerous tough...

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Four sisters graduate in one week

Four sisters graduate in one week

​Graduation 2022 at Stellenbosch University (SU) will go down in family history as the year that all four of the De Lange daughters, aged between 21 and 27...

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Exemplary FMHS colleagues recognised with Chancellor’s Awards

Exemplary FMHS colleagues recognised with Chancellor’s Awards

For the past 16 years, Mr Daniel (Dan) Ranna has been lightening up the reception area at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health...

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PhD study could help reduce pomegranate industry’s plastic footprint and fruit waste

PhD study could help reduce pomegranate industry’s plastic footprint and fruit waste

​An idea that could eventually help shrink the pomegranate industry's plastics footprint and can curb food losses along its value chain. That's what a newly...

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