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Democracy faces growing strain as institutions weaken and trust erodes

Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His research focuses on the political history...
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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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