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The Matie Community Service, better known as Maties Gemeenskapdiens (MGD), has finally integrated with Stellenbosch University's (SU) Division of Social Impact (DSI) after an intensive consultation process that stretched over two years.…

Conference delegates at the 15th SU SoTL Conference were once again afforded the opportunity to attend engaging workshops, keynotes and presentations. The theme of this year's conference was “Assessment matters. Re-imagining assessment…

From pioneering the mobile technology industry in Africa to driving the development of local community newspapers during the time of resistance to apartheid, the latest cohort to receive honorary doctorates from Stellenbosch University…

Despite the differences in South African universities' priorities and progress in the cause of transformation, there is a common and unifying appreciation of the inherent value of social justice as a primary driver and imperative at…

The performance of Prof Sylvia Vollenhoven's play Krotoa: Eva van die Kaap at the 2022 Toyota SU Woordfees resonated with Stellenbosch University's renaming of the RW Wilcocks Building to the Krotoa Building in 2021. It allowed learners,…

Researchers at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Centre for Evidence-based Health Care (CEBHC) recently conducted a Cochrane systematic review to assess the effects and safety of replacing salt with low-sodium salt substitutes (LSSS).The…

The Institute is a non-profit public institution that aims to promote Chinese language and culture. Following the successes of Germany, France, Spain, and the UK to promote their national languages, China decided in 2004 to do the same by…

Should educators only focus on teaching future healthcare practitioners the biomedical facts required for the profession, or should they also include aspects of social responsibility?This was the question posed by Cecilia Jacobs, an…

When it comes to tackling climate change, no event is bigger or more important than the United Nations' Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as the annual Conference of the Parties (COP). This year, COP27 takes place in…

The South African government has spent R7,1 billion (adjusted to 2020 values) between 1998 and 2020 to curb the spread of invasive plants, but we are still struggling to get them under control. What we need is a national strategy that…