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A Day in the Life… Randall Adams
Media release
Sport sustained hope for prisoners on Robben Island, PhD study shows
Robben Island is mostly associated with the suffering, brutality and isolation endured by political prisoners who fought against Apartheid. What is often...
Media release
Learning leadership from horses at SU
Leadership lessons at Stellenbosch University (SU) sometimes happen beyond lecture halls and meeting rooms.
Instead, they unfold in the university’s paddocks...
Education
New cohort of Future Professors receive a warm welcome at introductory conference
At a time when universities worldwide are grappling with rapid technological change, evolving knowledge economies and shifting public expectations, a group of...
Opinion and features
South Africa’s organ shortage: Time to act
World Kidney Day is marked each year on 12 March. In an opinion piece for the Weekend Argus, Prof Yazied Chothia from the Division of Nephrology writes that a...
Media release
New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms
A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” – Psilocybe cubensis – may now have been settled by...
Media release
SU part of global team delivering landmark G20 digital agenda analysis
Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Policy Innovation Lab is part of an international partnership that has formally handed over a landmark policy report tracing the...