Stellenbosch University has recently announced that the Wilcocks building will be renamed. To say that this decision has been a…
The past few months of 2020 have witnessed a flurry of opinion pieces written about this pandemic milieu in which…
Conservation globally is a challenging battle. Movements against climate change, plastic pollution and deforestation in the Amazon are on the…
The month of June is known globally as World Pride Month, a month that celebrates and brings awareness to the…
On 16th November 2018, an opinion piece by Mariné Bothma was published on Netwerk24. In this piece, Bothma attributes the…
A year later and nothing has changed – the deadly crisis is still developing on our campus with little to…
To fully understand why I believe that the Rooiplein discussion that took place during the SULeads Conference should become the…
Where do we draw the line between tradition and toxicity? A few weeks ago, I was sitting in my residence’s…
In a recent editorial piece, Die Matie’s editor, Lian van Wyk, expressed some pointed criticisms of protests on campus, and used the LLL Village protest on the 21st of August…
16 June is an important date on our national calendar. It is a day of remembrance for the heroic students who protested against discrimination on the grounds of race, colour…
2019 has already been a busy and exhausting year, packed with concerning events, decisions and activities that have been taking place on our campus at Stellenbosch University. For many students,…
There are still many questions left after Stellenbosch University announced that its shuttle fee has been “suspended”. Some of the short-term questions include whether the suspension is permanent, or just…
The past few months of 2020 have witnessed a flurry of opinion pieces written about this pandemic milieu in which…
Conservation globally is a challenging battle. Movements against climate change, plastic pollution and deforestation in the Amazon are on the…
I was five years old in a church when a woman stood to give the children a story. In the…
At the start of this year, I stood in my mother’s house watching the BBC report on the new virus…