Graduation is a special milestone on our academic calendar. This is when we celebrate our graduates’ academic achievements and honour their journey with SU as their academic home. We look forward to conferring certificates, diplomas...

Kerry Porrill was awarded Stellenbosch University’s top honour – the Chancellor’s Medal (2025). The Chancellor’s Medal was first instituted in 1961. Porrill is a graduate from the Mathematics Division within the Faculty of Science and this...

A first-generation graduate reflects on a near-decade academic path from SciMathUS to medicine. Loss, faith, and family shaped Naude’s resilience during the most demanding year of his degree. Mentorship, community and leadership helped him...

Amy Michau proves impossible goals are achievable. Elite showjumper: three FEI World Cup Qualifier wins and South African colours in 2025. Graduates from Stellenbosch University with a BSc (Agric) in Animal Science

Dr Luthando Tiya obtained his doctorate in pharmacology. He investigated farm workers’ exposure to pesticides. Herbicides or their breakdown products in blood of some people in farming-intensive areas.

Amogelang Moagi received her bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy. She had to overcome a traumatic assault, hip surgery and her mother’s death. She dedicates the degree to her mother.

Communications leader completed a PhD that interrogated how journalism shapes mental health narratives in South Africa. De Vries turned personal loss and lived experience into a study grounded in care, empathy and responsibility. Her...

Chérise Adams reframes feminist theory through the lived knowledge of working-class Coloured womxn in the Winelands. Her thesis – written partly in Afrikaaps – centres the care, resilience and everyday strategies of survival often...