Opinion and features
Blooming Where You Are Planted: Redefining Leadership Across Borders
In my home country, Zimbabwe, leadership is an asset of time. It is a crown reserved strictly for the elderly, for the grey hairs who have survived decades of...
Opinion and features
In Africa, For Africa: Building Community through Continental Collaboration
Identity and Roots
Uganda is home for me. It is where my work is rooted — in the realities of clinical care and public health systems, with a clear focus on...
Opinion and features
Belonging in the Small Moments: A Journey from Kenya to Stellenbosch
The Scientist & The Search
Kenya is home for me. It is where my family is, where I first discovered my passion for science, and where many of the questions that...
Opinion and features
Moving from Home to another Home
When I first stepped onto the Stellenbosch University campus as an international student from Zimbabwe in 2021, the vineyards and oak-lined streets felt both...
Media release
New study shows editing grapevine DNA could boost resistance to disease and drought
A team of researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Agricultural Research Council have, for the first time, successfully edited the DNA of a woody...
Events
Who owns the narrative? Science diplomacy sparks conversations at SIAN 2026
When it comes to climate change, sustainability, and development, influence comes from two sides. Those who provide the evidence (the data) and those who tell...
Events
SIAN 2026: In Africa, With Africa, For Africa
“Internationalisation is not about numbers, money or time spent. What matters is reciprocity — a genuine exchange where both partners learn from each other.”
Wit...
Media release
New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms
A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” – Psilocybe cubensis – may now have been settled by...
Impact
Strengthening Rural Sustainability Through Strategic African Partnerships: SU Engages in MASSTER Consortium Meeting in Senegal
From 23–26 February 2026, Henk Stander from the Aquaculture Unit in the Department of Animal Science at Stellenbosch University (SU) participated in a workshop...
Conservation and forestry
SU leads South Africa’s preparations for carbon removal to curb global warming
As the dust settles on COP30 in Brazil, the urgency for climate action has never been greater. It is in this critical context that Stellenbosch University (SU)...