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New study shows editing grapevine DNA could boost resistance to disease and drought
A bumper year
By Ilhaam Groenewald, Chief Director: Maties Sport
The past year has been a bumper year and continues to be until the first week of December. This year was...
Let’s lock the old house and move to the cloud
By Manie Lombard, Chief Director: Finance
We're now nearly at the end of a very busy year, filled with challenges of extraordinary magnitude – and you did it...
Let’s fuel up for 2023
By Denisha Jairam-Owthar, Chief Director: IT
As the year draws closer, a time for reflection dawns on us again. I reflect on the day I started at Stellenbosch...
Live a life of gratitude
By Anita Nel, Chief Director: Innovus
If the past few years have taught us anything, it will be to live a life of gratitude. We have learned that life can...
Hello World!
By Nicolette van den Eijkel, Chief Director: Facilities Management
I'm writing this on 21 November “World Hello Day". The day was first created in 1973 to...
Creating a Stellenbosch University where everyone feels welcome
This year started somewhere where two years of all that was COVID-19 left us. We hopped off one train onto another and kept rolling while we tried to catch up...