Stellenbosch University

Ubuntu in conversation with social justice, feminism, and Ubuntu and the politics of knowledge production are three themes to be explored at the Ubuntu Dialogues Revisit. Rethink. Reimagine conference hosted by the Stellenbosch University…

A first-of-a-kind diploma programme in infectious diseases, specifically tailored to the needs of the African health-care context, was launched at the beginning of 2022 by Stellenbosch University (SU), in partnership with the…

A group of 73 Stellenbosch University (SU) students were recently honoured with Rector's Awards for Excellent Achievement in recognition of their accomplishments in various spheres of student and campus life.Themed “Sustainable…

The Maties staff football team recently won the 2022 University Sport South Africa (USSA) Staff Tournament in Makhanda (Grahamstown). And the team members are already looking forward to defending their title at next year's…

Prof Gabeba Baderoon, a poet and scholar from Pennsylvania State University in the USA and the keynote speaker at the Slow Intimacy Conference that was recently held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, was raised on the…

Stellenbosch University (SU) has improved its global standing in the subject areas of Clinical and Health, Education, Law as well as Arts and Humanities according to the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings (WUR) by…

Did you know that the Nobel Prize in Physics was not officially awarded for several years in the early 1930s – the longest peacetime hiatus in the award's history? Did you know that this happened because it was, ironically, one of the…

South Africans are still basking in the glow of Banyana Banyana's recent triumph at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) tournament in Morocco. What made this victory even sweeter for me as someone who does research on women in…

​​Growing vegetables will never be the same again with the opening of the new HortiDemoCentre at the Stellenbosch University's (SU) Welgevallen experimental farm this week.The opening event showcased the best and most advanced Dutch…

South African botanist Brian du Preez (29) has discovered a beautiful new species from the Iridaceae family high up in the Langeberg Mountains of the Western Cape, South Africa.The name of the new species, Geissorhiza seracina (common…