“People don't give money to strangers; they give it to friends. Therefore, I regard myself as a friend- as well as a fundraiser." This is the philosophy of Felix Spies, Manager: Fundraising and Partnerships of the Faculty of Medicine and...

The accounting profession is going through a period of significant change. A couple of years ago many argued that mandatory audit firm rotation was the most significant change to impact the auditing profession in recent years. It is now...

​South Africa is grappling with a silent mass disaster of missing and unidentified people that requires collaborative interventions and solutions unique to our context, writes Dr Kathryn Smith* from the Department of Visual Arts in an...

​World Oceans Day is celebrated annually on 8 June. In an opinion piece for the Daily Maverick, PhD student in Science Courtney Gardiner emphasises why it is imperative that we start now to make the critical changes that will ensure the...

Monday 12 June 2023, 16h00, Neelsie Cinema In this presentation we speculate on how the research landscape in South Africa might look like in 20 years time. We examine this through the lens of the profile of early career mathematical...

​One of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) top academics received an extraordinary honour over the weekend when Italy’s ambassador to South Africa bestowed the Order of the Star of Italy on Prof Francesco Petruccione from the School for Data...

​​​Monensin, an antimicrobial substance that can be used to kill or prevent the growth of microorganisms, is frequently added to the diet of dairy calves to prevent intestinal infection caused by parasites, and to improve calf growth. The...

​​​​​​Africa can finance its own development and it is already doing it. Unfortunately, too many policymakers in Africa have a mindset of managing poverty, rather than of managing development. Its food system paradox isn't grounded in a...

​​​​Stellenbosch University (SU) has rolled out the structures that will focus on the recommendations of the Khampepe Commission. Our series of interviews with key SU staff steering the Committee for the Institutional Response to the...

Dr Ryan Tucker from Stellenbosch University's Department of Earth Sciences was part of an international team that discovered a new plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Utah during the mid-Cretaceous, approximately 99 million...