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Do not allow someone to stumble into leadership. Leadership is the single biggest problem to fix in this country – Professor Jonathan Jansen, University of Stellenbosch.

Following intensive lobbying by the two Stellenbosch groups, hundreds gathered on Thursday while more than 400 others dialled in online.

A 2016 ministerial task team found that, like in Mexico, the country’s largest teacher union, the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu), ‘is in de facto charge of the management, administration and priorities of education’ in ‘six and possibly more of the nine provinces’. The general silence at the shocking state of our education system has, thankfully, been punctuated by the results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (Pirls...

South Africa’s apartheid flag has been declared hate speech by a top court. But while courts are important and their judgments matter, racism is a long and internationally entrenched social phenomenon that cannot be undone via judicial processes.

Nepotism claims against Stellenbosch University vice-chancellor Wim de Villers has caused divisions at the Western Cape institution.

South African sailor Kirsten Neuschäfer recently emerged victorious in the prestigious Golden Globe round-the-world race.

Hot on the heels of language and racism scandals, the Stellenbosch University convocation is embroiled in a tug of war over VC De Villiers.

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CAPE TOWN – Until he was six years old, Gibson Ncube didn’t utter a word. Today, that same boy speaks four African and three international languages and works as a lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Department of Modern Foreign Languages. He’s considered one of the brightest rising stars in academia. Dr Ncube was reportedly honoured…

Professor Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor in Education at Stellenbosch University (SU) and president of the Academy of Science of South Africa, has been elected as a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences.His election,