by dreyera | May 29, 2023 | News
“We need to claim the space of the university because it is a collective treasure to us all. The university itself becomes enriched when it recognises all who belong. It diminishes and impoverishes itself when it lives along the lines of exclusion that it...
by dreyera | May 29, 2023 | News
An estimated 7 000 – but likely closer to 10 000 – unidentified bodies in South Africa’s medico-legal laboratories are waiting to be identified each year, says Dr Kathryn Smith, an interdisciplinary visual and forensic artist and Chair of the...
by dreyera | May 26, 2023 | News
Prof Herman Wasserman, Chair of the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University (SU), has been invited to join a new international authoritative panel of experts who will address threats to the global information environment. The International Panel on the...
by dreyera | May 26, 2023 | News
The story that won Hana Gammon (20) the first prize in the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Africa region is dedicated to a very special person: her “Oupa” Prof Christo Viljoen, former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University (SU) and...
by dreyera | May 15, 2023 | News
Ms Mmanape Hlungwane, a PhD student in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, has recently been awarded the coveted Mitacs Globalink Research Award. This award supports research collaboration between Canada and selected partner organisations in other countries. The...
by dreyera | May 8, 2023 | News
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” So said Nathan Geffen, editor of GroundUp, about the reporting approach his news agency followed when they started investigating the prison escape of the infamous Thabo Bester. Geffen was the keynote speaker...
