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Stellenbosch University (SU), through the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ), has concluded a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF), Germany, represented by the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

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SU and Europa-Universität Flensburg conclude strategic Memorandum of Understanding on peace and conflict research in the context of violent histories

Stellenbosch University (SU), through the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ), has concluded a memorandum of...
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Prof Jonathan Jansen: an activist for excellence

Prof Jonathan Jansen: an activist for excellence

​Not many A1 rated academics can among their outputs and citations list that their tweets in support of Springbok rugby were quoted in newspapers.  But such is...

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Student’s enterprise to be featured internationally

Student’s enterprise to be featured internationally

Final-year Sustainable Development student Gafsa Adam has found early success as an entrepreneur after her jewellery business was selected to be featured on...

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Four-day work week not a ‘magic bullet’

Four-day work week not a ‘magic bullet’

​Will a four-day work week be a hit in South Africa?

This was the question Prof Mark Smith, Director of the Stellenbosch Business School, explored in a recent...

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MGD wraps up focus group engagements to prepare for intended incorporation into SU

MGD wraps up focus group engagements to prepare for intended incorporation into SU

​The 58-year-old non-governmental organisation, Matie Community Service (better known as MGD – Matie Gemeenskapsdiens, in Afrikaans), is wrapping up a number...

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EMS Dean among top scholars honoured

EMS Dean among top scholars honoured

​​​Prof Ingrid Woolard, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), and Prof Stan du Plessis, a former Dean of the...

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Nobel Foundation's Nobel Symposia coming to Africa for the first time

Nobel Foundation's Nobel Symposia coming to Africa for the first time

​Nobel in Africa is a Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) initiative in partnership with Stellenbosch University and is hosted under the auspices...

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