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SRC awaits answer from Rectorate for quota deadline extension

Students can upload washing quota at their residence laundry rooms using their student cards. Before the deadline to increase quota, announced to be 14 August, students can pay for washing, food or printing through their student account. After the deadline, students can use Snapscan or the Maties Student Fees payment page to upload quota using personal funds, according to Martin Viljoen, Stellenbosch University’s (SU) media manager. PHOTO: Emma Giles

Students have raised their concerns with the Student Representative Council (SRC) about Stellenbosch University’s (SU) deadline to increase quota...

Maties Rugby appoints new head coach

Coetzenburg Sportsgrounds, where Maties Rugby’s home stadium is located.

As Paarl Boys’ High School announced the departure of its head coach, Stellenbosch University confirmed he would be heading...

SU research project calls to address violence in Kayamandi schools

A Stellenbosch University (SU) research project aimed to reduce violence in schools was recently launched in Kayamandi. Named the...

isiXhosa interpreters could be back in SU classes by 2027

Students and SRC candidates sitting side-by-side at the SRC caucus.

Educational interpreting into isiXhosa in classes should again be available at Stellenbosch University (SU) from next year. This is...

Coffee and people with MyBrew barista, Bongile Mveli

In the ten years that Bongile Mveli has been a barista at the MyBrew coffee shop in Stellenbosch University’s...

How to be human: Sandra Mbatha’s unrelenting mission to serve

In 2017, Sandra Mbatha arrived in Stellenbosch as a first-generation student, with borrowed suitcases and a blanket from her...

Stellenbosch University SRC leaves R802 266 of its budget untouched

Cropped for feature: Sinawo Sangovana, the treasurer of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Stellenbosch University (SU) for 2025/2026, stands outside the SRC office in the Neelsie student centre.

The Student Representative Council (SRC) at Stellenbosch University (SU) has not used 70% of its R1 151 525 budget with the...

Young powerhouse academic’s dream of changing lives through prosthetics

Stellenbosch University student, Amohetsoe Shale, is proof that you are never too young to dream big. At 23, Shale, currently in her second year of a master’s degree in science, recently started a company through which she hopes to pioneer affordable prosthetics. It’s November 2025, at the seventh annual Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education Awards. […]