Rector's Speeches

2021
Welcoming newcomer first-year students (bilingual version as recorded) 2021/03/02
2020
Rector's Report to the Convocation 2020/12/09
Online Staff Assembly 2020/12/08
Teaching and Learning Celebration: Opening Address 2020/12/03
SciMathUS opening (20th anniversary) 2020/02/03
2019
Launch of the Lückhoff Living Museum 2019/11/16
Convocation 2019/11/14
Inaugural National Higher Education Conference 2019/10/02
Staff Assembly (slides and text) 2019/08/27
Input at 'Symposium on re-structuring science and research at SU' 2019/05/21
‘Die Vlakte’ bursaries awarded 2019/04/01
Sod-turning ceremony for new Biomedical Research Institute, Tygerberg 2019/01/25
Welcoming newcomer first-year students (English translation) 2019/01/24
Welcoming newcomer first-year students (bilingual version, as delivered) 2019/01/24
2018
Naming of the Adam Small Theatre Complex 2018/11/23
Launch of SU's 'Vision 2040 and Strategic Framework 2019–2024' 2018/07/24
Stellenbosch University Centenary Address (as delivered) 2018/03/23
Welcoming new students 2018/01/25
2017
Address to the Convocation 2017/11/23
International Summit on Quackery and Pseudoscience 2017/11/20
Presentation to the Gender Commission 2017/11/01
2016
SU Leads (annual student leadership conference) 2016/09/04
SU Staff Assembly 2016/03/01
SU appoints new Distinguished Professors 2016/02/08
"Resource Efficiency for Global Competitiveness" (COMA'16) 2016/01/27
"Stellenbosch University: Forward!" (Communication to the Convocation) 2016/01/26
2015
New Voices in Science 2015/12/02
"A new heritage" (Launch ‘Die Vlakte’ installation, Arts and Social Sciences Building) 2015/11/12
"A top university for top students” (Info session for prospective students and their parents) 2015/08/12
75th Commemoration of the Battle of Andringa Street 2015/07/27
African Doctoral Academy (ADA) Winter School 2015/07/06
Dinner for alumni, donors and friends of SU in Johannesburg 2015/06/11
Removal of the HF Verwoerd plaque from the Accounting and Statistics Building 2015/05/27
Africa Day Seminar, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 2015/05/25
Inaugural Address by Prof Wim de Villiers as Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (English translation) 2015/04/29
Inaugural Address by Prof Wim de Villiers as Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (as delivered) 2015/04/29
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Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences 90 years old 2015/04/18