The latest Letter, newsletter of the Faculty, has been uploaded onto the website. Read it by clicking here.
The Graduate School is the umbrella structure for the coordination of research themes focused on Africa's development and administers doctoral programmes and full-time doctoral scholarships in the Faculty.
The African Doctoral Academy (ADA), which is linked to the Graduate School, is a support structure that offers high-quality research training and support to current and prospective doctoral students and academics managing and supervising postgraduate students.
The Partnership for Africa's Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA) currently consists of six universities on the African continent which forms a network focused on strengthening the development of higher education in Africa by creating amongst others opportunities for collaborative research and exchange amongst peer institutions.
The Graduate School, the African Doctoral Academy and PANGeA make up the components of the Faculty's flagship project (the Graduate School and ADA initiative), which forms part of Stellenbosch University's HOPE Project.
Hidden Theatre. This is what Johan Esterhuizen of the Department of Drama at Stellenbosch University (SU) calls most of what is happening across the country in terms of theatre productions at school level. The annual Buya Schools Theatre Festival brings this kind of theatre out of the shadows. For one week each year schools from the greater [...]
What is the impact of organised crime, and more specifically of gangs on the Cape Flats, on the social control of the state? This is one of the questions that Ms Derica Lambrechts, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, tried to answer in her doctoral research, titled The Impact of Organised Crime on [...]
A group of music students at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Conservatoire came up with a bright idea to expose a larger audience to classical music ? and now they also have the chance to perform even more. “We want to take classical music beyond the walls of the Conservatoire in order to expose other students to [...]
Author JM Coetzee has inspired many writers. Lucy Graham, lecturer in the Department of English, is one of the many people to drawn inspiration from Coetzee?s work ? albeit to write a non-fiction work with the provocative title State of Peril ? Race and Rape in South African Literature. In her case it was specifically [...]
?The media is not the enemy of the ANC, the enemy lies within the ANC itself.? These were the words of writer and political analyst, Mcebisi Ndletyana, at the Department of Journalism?s World Press Freedom celebrations last week. He shared the stage with founder and chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Aids activist, [...]
Interesting and exciting things have been happening at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. And you can read all about it in the latest edition of Letter, the online newsletter of the Faculty. The Department of Visual Arts exhibited at the Design Indaba for the first time ever. Hand-bound books by students as well [...]
The time has come to recognise the contribution of marginalised groups to the development of Afrikaans. This was the view of Prof Kees van der Waal of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University (SU) on Thursday (3 May). He was the speaker at the third Stellenbosch Forum lecture of this year, a lecture [...]
