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“Dit is nou die ding van die open stand, niemand is hier vir die rugby nie.” – Besope sesdejaarstudent “How can you think Valentines is on the 11th of February. Where have you been for 22 years?” “Single.” – DepressedRead More
LISA DE CLERCQ Now that January, also known as the month-that-feels-likea-year, has at last come to an end, anything concerning money can finally be considered again. Die Matie got its nose into a few budding student businesses on campus, andRead More
ARMS VOL LIEFDE Sakke vol Bicycle Girl Clothing word aan verskeie studente en besighede verkoop. JANA GREYLING ’n Matie het die kostuums in die nuwe Afrikaanse film Liewe Lisa bedink. Lumé Venter, finalejaar-BAstudent en eienaar van Bicycle Girl Clothing, hetRead More
Students tend to have the most interesting tattoos on campus. Fern Bamber took a deeper look into the meanings of students tattoos and how they received it. PROTEST ART BA-student Camryn Steenkamp, who has just started her final year, wasRead More
Maties Football Club is victorious The men from Maties Football Club took on the Glen Eagles in their 12th game of the SAB tournament. The football club faced their second loss in the past two weeks after going eight gamesRead More
DANÉ DOOGE The year is 2019 and gawking and gasping at women playing rugby is something of the distant past. That’s why, on 23 February, Stellenbosch University (SU) will be hosting the Maties Women’s Touch Rugby Tournament. Rugby will beRead More
DANÉ DOOGE & ANKE VAN DER MERWE Tegniek, spanwerk en kohesie: Dit is drie van die beste woorde om Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) se eerste rugbyspan te beskryf. Op Maandag 11 Februarie, het Maties teen die aartsvyand Ikey Tigers van dieRead More
ABBA MY! Kinders speel by Goldfields se gemeenskapsdiensprojek. DOMINIQUE FUCHS Ingenieurstudente van Huis Visser het kleuters se gesigte geverf tydens ’n uitreikingsaksie by ’n kleuterskool as deel van die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) se oriënteringsprogram. “Dit was soms maar moeilikRead More
KESIA ABRAHAMS A Maties cricketer has just made the women’s Protea team, paving the way for female athletes. Born and raised in Cape Town, Faye Tunnicliffe’s cricket journey began at the age of eleven when she was told by aRead More
JOSH MYBURGH The Maties hockey weekly five-a-side tournament is in full swing. Five-a-side hockey is a shorter, quicker variation of the game, aimed at gripping the spectators’ attention with high paced skills and goals, not to mention a level ofRead More
CARLA VISAGIE Stellenbosch University (SU) have produced a variety of well-known actors and actresses over the years, such as Antoinette Kellerman, Casper de Vries and Margitte Meyer-Rödenbeck to just name a few, but most of them studied acting here. JaneRead More
HELÉNE LEONARD Twee Maties bring vanjaar die 1960’s weer tot lewe in Pinelands Players se vervaardiging van Hairspray. Janco Nel en Aidan Lewis is al vanaf 2 Februarie by die Kunstekaapverhoog in Kaapstad te sien waar hulle in hierdie produksieRead More
DISGRUNTLED METANOIAN DRINKING DIRTY-WATER Clerone showing the poor quality of Metanoia’s water. SAARAH ABRAHAMS The Western Cape may have escaped the dreaded Day Zero for the time being, but water restrictions are still in place in Stellenbosch. The levelRead More
MATIESCAM PRYK OP ADVERTENSIEBORD Die Besigheidsontwikkelingsbestuurder en uitvoerende direkteur in die Neelsie. CARLA VISAGIE Meeste student het al op ’n punt gekom waar hulle vir ’n week lank moet oorleef op Pulp se springmielies of 2 Minute noodles. Gerjo Hoffman, ’nRead More
CARLA VISAGIE, ALLISON MATROOS EN SZ MINNAAR Universiteit gaan oor veel meer as om graad te vang. Terwyl jy in Matieland is, moet jy probeer om jou bucket list af te handel en studenteverenigings is ’n uitstekende manier om ditRead More
SZ MINNAAR Ekonomie was verlede jaar die gewildste eerstejaarsvak aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US). Meer as 2 000 studente het verlede jaar vir dié vak registreer. Aangesien die fakulteit ekon-omiese en bestuurswetenskappe (EBW) die US se grootste fakulteit is, isRead More
SZ Minnaar Modieuse Maties sou al ’n draai of twee by die Adam & Eve Collab in Trumpet Tree gemaak het. Hierdie winkel het ’n beskeie begin gehad, maar groot dinge wink nou op die horison. “Ek het nooit gedinkRead More
Kara van der Berg Die Vereniging vir Afrikaansstudente (VER[r]AS) se jaarlikse bekendstelling het Donderdag, 12 April by die HB Thom-teater plaasgevind. VER[r]AS is die amptelike studentekomitee van die Universiteit Stellenbosch se departement Afrikaans en Nederlands. Du Toit Albertze het die funksie afgeskop met sy selfgeskrewe eenpersoonstuk, Die Meerminkompleks, wat onlangsRead More