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SU opens Africa’s first immersive technology lab
MA Day for Afrikaans and Dutch students
On Monday 13 June, eight MA students in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch showcased their research and their progress over the past six months by giving...
Legislative amendments needed to tackle misconduct, incompetence of educators
South Africa's education legislation lacks teeth when it comes to regulating the misconduct and incompetence of some of our educators in the public basic...
Prof Anita Cloete helps to emphasise reciprocal relationship between media and religion
Prof Anita Cloete from the Department of Practical Theology and Missiology at Stellenbosch University recently delivered her inaugural lecture titled Being...
Pioneering study of TB in rhinos aids Kruger Park’s conservation efforts
The largest study ever to be conducted on a free-ranging population of rhinoceros, revealed that about one in every seven rhinos in the Kruger National Park...
Avatar against food waste in the citrus industry
Researchers at Empa’s Biomimetical Membranes and Textiles laboratory in Switzerland, with the help of horticulturalists from Stellenbosch University in South...
World Oceans Day: Interesting facts about alien species, worms and seagrass
The annual World Oceans Day was celebrated on 8 June. In opinion pieces* for The Conversation, marine genomics and biology experts in the Department of Botany...