UNATHI NKANJENI The DA has launched a petition to make Afrikaans equal with English at Stellenbosch University, saying it is to protect the right to mother tongue education at the university “against persistent attacks by university…
Coping mechanisms adopted by employees to deal with “managers from hell” have been studied by Stellenbosch University. Positive ways of caring for themselves included exercising, while negative ways included overeating, according to the…
Siyamthanda Mtyeku sometimes only had one meal a day Siyamthanda Mtyeku studied for matric in the one-roomed shack he shares with four other people in Marikana informal settlement in Cape Town – and passed with seven distinctions. The…
Targeted interventions can limit the number of children being killed, as well as their fall into gangsterism. So says Dr Chris Jones from the unit for moral leadership in the faculty of theology at Stellenbosch University. Reviewing crime…
CAMBRIDGE High School pupil, Vanessa Annan recently took part in the International Eskom Science Expo held in Boksburg, receiving a gold medal for her invention, The Aqua Powerhouse. The Grade 11 pupil also received third place in the…
By Dave Chambers Scientists have discovered why a South African bee species grew extraordinarily long legs. Research at Stellenbosch University has found that oil-collecting Rediviva bees‚ first described in 1984‚ evolved legs of up to…
By Dave Chambers A primary school has cut its water use by two-thirds with the help of a device developed at Stellenbosch University. Stellenbosch Primary is using 11 kilolitres a day‚ down from 35kl before it became one of five schools…
