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The lack of an up-to-date database of residents in Kayamandi and the role such a database could play in ensuring that the real victims of a disaster receive speedy assistance were some of the issues discussed at a meeting between senior Stellenbosch University staff and the University’s community partners in Kayamandi recently. Prof Russel Botman, [...]

As an official bid partner, Stellenbosch will in 2014 be part of the Cape Town World Design Capital (WDC) celebrations, and staff and students of the University have been invited to submit proposals for inclusion in the year-long programme. Successful projects will receive official WDC 2014 recognition, endorsement and promotion. “This is your opportunity to [...]

This week, Stellenbosch University(SU) joined hands with the greater Stellenbosch community to reach out to the thousands of residents affected by Friday’s fire in Kayamandi. Financial support for the victims was received from alumni as far away as the USA. The fire spread through Kayamandi in the early hours of 15 March and at least [...]

The Division for Community Interaction invites you to share the stories of your project activities on the new Community Interaction website (due to go live in April 2013). We are keen to share the interesting and valuable work you do with the wider campus and outside communities. Please submit your short descriptions which adhere to [...]

Community Engagement (CE) has gained substantial ground as a core function of higher education institutions (HEI’s) particularly in the last decade in South Africa (SA). In line with international trends, the meaning attached to CE is that universities interact with the rest of society though teaching, learning and research. Increasingly, there is a need for [...]

SU staff members in all faculties and support service divisions are requested to register new (or unregistered) projects for 2013 and/or confirm previously registered projects which continue to be active in 2013. New (or previously unregistered) projects: Registration in this regard means that project owners are requested to fill in all the information pertaining to [...]

The message given to a group of 125 new SciMathUS students at Wednesday’s (6 February) opening ceremony was clear: Grab this opportunity with both hands, work hard, do your best and you will reap the rewards. The students, their parents and funders of Stellenbosch University’s (SU)  highly successful SciMathUS programme  (Science and Mathematics at the University [...]

“We want to show that you can make a big difference by giving just a bit of your time.” These were the words of Martin Visser, a House Committee member of Helshoogte, as he was painting at the Ida’s Valley sportsgrounds during the MAD² Community Interaction morning on Friday, 1 February. According to Visser, Helshoogte students [...]

On Friday, February 1, thousands of first-year Stellenbosch University (SU) students get a chance to experience one of the core functions of the University namely community interaction. The students, in their respective residences and clusters, will participate in some 20 community engagement projects in and around Stellenbosch. The activities will include reading programmes, sport activities [...]

Be part of no-new-HIV-infections and transformational leadership on campus. Have you heard friends and fellow students talk about HIV, sexuality and gender issues on campus without having their facts straight? Does your residence / society / department reflect social awareness leadership around these issues? Here is the ideal opportunity for you to become part of [...]

The Department of Viticulture and Oenology and the Institute of Wine Biotechnology was buzzing with activity last week as staff members and postgraduate students joined forces to play Santa. They ensured that 30 children from Idas Valley will have a memorable Christmas by giving each child a Santa shoe box. The respective laboratories and research groups were responsible [...]

Twins Aziz and Zahir Richards have, until now, done everything together, including taking the same subjects in school and graduating as doctors at Stellenbosch University’s first graduation ceremony on Tuesday, 11 December. Now, for the first time, they will go their separate ways with Aziz moving to Durban to do his internship at Addington Hospital. [...]

The Division for Community Interaction (DCI) is hosting a regular, institutional schools interaction forum for all involved in school-based projects at Stellenbosch University. The key aims of the forum are: 1. To share information about existing projects 2. To share development plans for new projects 3. To explore synergies between existing projects 4. To explore [...]

The Division for Community Interaction cordially invites you to participate in the Community Interaction, Community of Practice. Dr Jerome Slamat (Senior Director: Community Interaction) will present a paper proposing a re-definition of Community Interaction and identify criteria for the monitoring and evaluation of Community Interaction. This will be followed by a broader discussion which will [...]

The staff of the Registrar’s Division successfully launched a mentorship project at Lückhoff High School in Idas Valley on Tuesday, 25 September. This voluntary initiative, which is headed by Ghafsa Gamiet, Assistant Registrar: Scientiae was positively received by the Lückhoff High School community. The idea of a mentorship project originated when the staff members of [...]