Traditionally, someone who suffered from hypertension – or high blood pressure – would only receive treatment when his or her blood pressure was measured and the reading was found be higher than normal. But this meant that the condition was...

"Visionary leaders" is how Prof Jimmy Volmink, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Stellenbosch University (SU), described the two Vice Deans recently appointed to the faculty's management. Dr Therese Fish, who has...

The Division of Internal Medicine (GIM) is the largest division in the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Tygerberg Hospital.

The Division of Chemical Pathology, housed within the Department of Pathology, provides critical insights into health and disease through the biochemical analysis of blood and bodily fluids.

Can cities solve problems countries can't? How will cities shape the future? These are some of the questions academics, business and government leaders from around the world will discuss at the 2016 Chicago Forum on Global Cities. Among...

​​South Africa has the highest rate of women killed by their intimate partner in the world despite various interventions such as the Sixteen Days of Activism of No Violence Against Women and Children campaign each year from late November to...

​​​With his inaugural lecture on modernity in Afrikaans literature, Prof. Visagie proved his knowledge of and insight into his subject. His research on male subjectivity in Afrikaans literature, and more recently on the depictions of human...

A massive medieval cart with a parabolic structure mounted on top of it to concentrate sunlight is the centre of attraction on the Rooi Plain at Maties today. Prof. Paul Papka and physics students from the Solar Thermal Energy research...

​​The documentary Black Christmas tells the painful but poignant story of how one of the perpetrators of the 1996 Christmas Eve bombing in Worcester found redemption and forgiveness in the same community he had once hated and struck at. The...

​​​The Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (SU) recently hosted the first meeting of the National Blended Learning Forum. Representatives from various universities, among them the University of Pretoria, the University of Cape...