How to register your device for SU campus wifi
The Stellenbosch University student internet network removed pay-per-use cost for on-campus internet last year, and this year has transitioned to…
The Case for the Lillian Ngoyi Building
Stellenbosch University has recently announced that the Wilcocks building will be renamed. To say that this decision has been a…
Up-ending student leadership in our “new reality”
The past few months of 2020 have witnessed a flurry of opinion pieces written about this pandemic milieu in which…
The Achilles Heel of Conservation
Conservation globally is a challenging battle. Movements against climate change, plastic pollution and deforestation in the Amazon are on the…
A Queer-llaboration
The month of June is known globally as World Pride Month, a month that celebrates and brings awareness to the…
The Truth About Wilgenhof
Walking into Wilgenhof’s courtyard is a strange experience. It is simultaneously reminiscent of both a calm old-Stellenbosch guesthouse and a…
On “Victimhood”: the Realities and Fictions
On 16th November 2018, an opinion piece by Mariné Bothma was published on Netwerk24. In this piece, Bothma attributes the…
Mental Health Needs to be Prioritised on our Campuses, 2.0
A year later and nothing has changed – the deadly crisis is still developing on our campus with little to…
Facilitating the resistance at SU Leads 2018
To fully understand why I believe that the Rooiplein discussion that took place during the SULeads Conference should become the…
“Boys will be boys, right?”
Where do we draw the line between tradition and toxicity? A few weeks ago, I was sitting in my residence’s…
Bourdain, Spade and Depression
There’s no arguing that 2018 has been a year of trends – from the everpresent rise of Beyonce in the…
Yes, Die Matie, We can and We will Protest
In a recent editorial piece, Die Matie’s editor, Lian van Wyk, expressed some pointed criticisms of protests on campus, and…
Youth Day has come and gone again, and our youth are still suffering
16 June is an important date on our national calendar. It is a day of remembrance for the heroic students…
The Sad State of Activism, Leadership and Ideology on Campus
2019 has already been a busy and exhausting year, packed with concerning events, decisions and activities that have been taking…
Shuttle fees: the aftermath
There are still many questions left after Stellenbosch University announced that its shuttle fee has been “suspended”. Some of the…
R9 is a lot more than you think
The beginning of 2019 has not been a smooth one for a number of South African universities. Many academically eligible…
When did we start referring to people as “bodies”?
Some of you might have noticed that, sometime in the past few years, it has become in-vogue to use the…
Up-ending student leadership in our “new reality”
The past few months of 2020 have witnessed a flurry of opinion pieces written about this pandemic milieu in which…
The Achilles Heel of Conservation
Conservation globally is a challenging battle. Movements against climate change, plastic pollution and deforestation in the Amazon are on the…
A tale of the past and present
I was five years old in a church when a woman stood to give the children a story. In the…
“We Are the World”
At the start of this year, I stood in my mother’s house watching the BBC report on the new virus…
Is anybody out there?
The quiet, unbearable loneliness of victimhood in an emotionally abusive relationship You know, it’s funny; when you look at someone…