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Hoping all your squares and cubes will fit comfortably within your expectations of 2025
By Anita Nel, Chief Director Innovation and Commercialisation (0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² = 2025. Furthermore, it also represents the sum of the cubes of all the digits of the decimal numbering system. (0³ + 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ +...
IT is SU’s strategic partner on our digital transformation journey
By Antoinette van der Merwe, Chief Director Information Technology Aligned to the Educause Top 10 issues for building a trusted, resilient institution, IT will focus in 2025 to be SU's strategic partner on our digital transformation...
SU celebrates 200th graduate of MSc in Clinical Epidemiology
The Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics celebrated a significant milestone at the March graduation when Dr Craig Corbett became the 200th graduate of the unit's MSc in Clinical Epidemiology programme. Corbett, who recently completed...
Volleyball gives PhD graduate Jerome Fredericks his sporting chance
From being told that he should aspire to become an astronaut as he was “good for nothing on earth" to graduating this week from Stellenbosch University (SU) with a PhD in occupational therapy, Jerome Peter Boboo Fredericks has exceeded...
Beyond silence: It’s the right(s) time to speak up
Human Rights Day is not just a historical marker it is a mirror held up to our present reality as South Africans. It forces us to take a good look at ourselves and ask whether we are truly honouring the sacrifices made for freedom, justice...
VAT increase, a solution or just a short-term fix to a long-term crisis?
Dr Velenkosini Matsebula is a Senior Lecturer in Development Finance at Stellenbosch Business School. The South African government has once again turned to taxation as a means of addressing its fiscal challenges, announcing an increase in...
Dr Mariëtte Botha celebrates her PhD with her life-saving brother
When Dr Mariëtte Botha received her first degree at SU, her father Tiny said, “One day you're going to wear one of those red doctoral gowns." His words were prophetic because this week, Mariëtte's dream of obtaining a PhD in Speech...
African universities should reaffirm their positions as full partners
The African collaboration workshop, the precursor for SU International's annual Stellenbosch International Academic Network (SIAN) meeting, this year placed the concept of fair partnerships in higher education under the spotlight...
Health research ethics under the spotlight
The first workshop ever to bring together all the Health Research Ethics Committees in the Western Cape was recently held at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). The workshop was opened by the renowned ethicist, Prof Anton...
Prof Firdouza Waggie takes the reins at Department of Health Professions Education
Associate Professor Firdouza Waggie will become the new Executive Head of the Department of Health Professions Education (DHPE) in Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) on April 1. Waggie, who was Deputy...