Women must stand together to obtain success – message at Alumni Relations...
In order for women to break through the glass ceiling a lot sooner, they need to cultivate a deeper sense of self-confidence and start looking out for themselves. This was one of the messages that came...
View ArticleMaties from near and far come to celebrate 75th anniversary of SU Choir
Nearly a hundred years of beautiful singing voices, excellence and dedication was celebrated this weekend with two special reunion concerts commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Stellenbosch...
View ArticleFour researchers at SU scoop sought-after fellowships
Four researchers of Stellenbosch University (SU) were winners of a recent fellowship competition by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) based in Brooklyn, New York. Only nine fellowships were...
View ArticleBuya Schools Theatre Festival spotlights hidden theatre
Hidden Theatre. This is what Johan Esterhuizen of the Department of Drama at Stellenbosch University (SU) calls most of what is happening across the country in terms of theatre productions at school...
View ArticleLimpopo whizz kid among top Stellenbosch students
Most people tend to think that students on the Extended Degree Programme are part of a lower performing group. Enos Lekala wants to prove that students on this programme can excel. The Social Dynamics...
View ArticleUniversities should assist first-generation students
Dr Ludolph Botha, Senior Director: Student and Academic Support at Stellenbosch University, writes in the Sunday Independent that first-generation students are now overtaking the number of...
View ArticleGenes hold key to cure
Professor Jonathan Carr, Head of the Division of Neurology at Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University, writes in the Mail & Guardian that the cure for Parkinson’s disease is going to be a...
View ArticleVisual Arts student receives Skye Foundation Scholarship
Abri de Swardt, who last year received the Rector’s Award for Excellent Achievement in The Arts and Social Sciences, has just heard that he has also received the Skye Foundation Scholarship. This...
View ArticleSKA will help reverse African brain drain, Rector says in Australia
“The fact that the bulk of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be built in Africa, will help us reverse the brain drain from the continent,” Stellenbosch University Rector and Vice-Chancellor Prof...
View ArticleState intervention needed to protect children against ‘junk food’
The government must step in and take action when the health of children is jeopardised by negative lifestyle influences, Lize Mills, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Private Law at Stellenbosch...
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