Awards and milestones
Department of Modern Foreign Languages hosts prestigious 2025 Naspers Chinese Language Awards
The Department of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) held its annual Naspers Awards Ceremony on 13 November at...
Awards and milestones
Prof Lindy Heinecken receives the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award for her stellar career in military fraternity
- What does this award mean to an outstanding academic and professional in the military fraternity?
Receiving the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award is a...
Campus life
New thinking in Faculty about SU’s past and future
By Desmond Thompson
When a study on “Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Coloured South African women” was published in 2019, it...
Awards and milestones
The University of Venda appoints Stellenbosch University alumnus Professor Fulufhelo (Fulu) Netswera as Vice Chancellor Research and Postgraduate Studies
Fulufhelo is a Development Sociology graduate of 2005 at Stellenbosch University. He says that his doctoral experience at Stellenbosch under the supervision of...
Awards and milestones
SU honours top academics at Research and Innovation Excellence Awards
Stellenbosch University’s (SU) brightest minds gathered this week at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) for the 2025 Research and Innovation...
Arts, languages and social sciences
HeartWorks: Fine arts and biomedical students reconsider the human heart
When thinking about the human heart, how can artists represent this multi-faceted organ to include all its complexities? Can art represent the heart both...
Opinion and features
We must remove the stigma around mental health
October is observed as Mental Health Awareness Month, and World Mental Health Day is celebrated on 10 October. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at...
Arts, languages and social sciences
UN Expert Panel co-chaired by Crest, Dr Heide Hackmann releases latest report on Climate and SDG’s synergies
On 24-25 September 2025, the Third Global Report on Climate and SDG Synergies (2025), prepared by the Expert Group including our very own Crest, Dr Heide...
Events
Department of Journalism leaves its mark on historic first African ICA Conference
A strong Stellenbosch University (SU) Department of Journalism presence helped shape the first-ever African edition of the International Communication...
Opinion and features
Youth Day: Young people's voices must be heard
South Africans celebrated Youth Day on 16 June. In opinion pieces for the media, staff and students at Stellenbosch University emphasised why it is important to...
Opinion and features
Key continental issues highlighted on Africa Day
Building Africa’s future, Ubuntu and liberal democracy, the lives of migrant African women in South Africa, and the internationalisation of African higher...
Media release
President Ramaphosa honours SU academics for global contributions to healing and science
Two of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) leading academics have been recognised with some of South Africa’s highest national honours. President Cyril Ramaphosa...