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First-generation university students struggle with financial hardships and generational trauma

First-generation students at Stellenbosch University (SU) experience various challenges throughout their university careers due to a lack of resources...

Stellenbosch NSFAS students raise concerns over new banking system

Stellenbosch University (SU) is currently in contact with the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and NSFAS’s new service...

Food insecurity among students must be addressed – Madonsela

Stellenbosch University (SU) has a serious food and nutrition security challenge, claimed prof Thuli Madonsela, law trust research chair...

NSFAS: No solutions offered for accommodation crisis

Several Stellenbosch University (SU) students remained dissatisfied with the apparent lack of solutions offered by the deputy minister of...

Stellenbosch University implements measures after 2022 urination incidents

Stellenbosch University (SU) has worked in various capacities to reform aspects of residence life following the urination incidents of...

Questions raised over handover processes at Stellenbosch University’s SRC

Concerns over lack of training and handover processes between student leadership structures had been raised following a recent public...

The results are in – SU’s next SRC chairperson is …

A BA humanities student was recently elected as the new chairperson of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Stellenbosch...

Student elections voter turnout ‘disappointing’

Despite returning to in-person caucuses for the first time in three years, the voter turnout for the recent general...

Time to ‘think differently’ about climate change – SU researcher

In order to combat climate change, it is important to think differently and consider Africa’s past, present and future....

In-person student elections commence at SU

As Stellenbosch University (SU) students enter the second semester of the year, various student leadership election proceedings have officially...