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Learning leadership from horses at SU
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Maties Hosts 2025 USSA Swimming Championships
Maties proudly hosted the University Sport South Africa (USSA) Swimming Championships in Stellenbosch, bringing together top student swimmers from across the...
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Maties Climber ranks fourth in South Africa.
Maties Climbing’s Jeremy van der Riet has bagged the hardest route in the annual Black Diamond Tradathon – a traditional rock-climbing festival that pits...
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Time to check in with Maties Sport Alumnus: Gemma Haywood
As a student-athlete at Stellenbosch University, you learn how to be independent and take responsibility for your actions.
“As a Matie, I learned very...
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DAWIE SNYMAN TRIBUTE
It is with deep sorrow that Maties Sport and Maties Rugby Club mourns the passing of one of our own, Dawie Snyman, on 14 August 2025—a former Maties stalwart...
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Women Rugby players can be tough – with painted nails
Just as male rugby players can be hooligans on the field and gentlemen afterwards, so can women players be aggressive for 80 minutes and then have their...
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Nathaly is nurturing Maties Basketball’s ‘clever ladies’
“No regrets, just learnings” is Nathaly September’s motto for living her best life as the Maties Basketball Women’s Coach, as a wife and as a mother.
“It can...