Achieving Goals Together: Tips for Students and the Impact of Your Support
The start of a new year is a fresh opportunity to reflect, reset, and realign with your academic and personal aspirations. As a university student, setting clear and actionable goals can make a significant difference in how your year unfolds. Here are some tips to help you craft a winning strategy for 2025: Reflect on […]
A Testament to the Power of Education and Legacy: Reflections from a Russel Botman Bursary Fund Recipient
Nokukhanya Makwe BSc (Human Life Science) III As a proud recipient of the Russel Botman Bursary, I am deeply honoured to share my gratitude and story. Receiving this bursary has been nothing short of transformative, and I am especially thankful to Dr. Beryl Botman and Ms. Roxanne Botman for their unwavering support and encouragement throughout […]
Another Botman decade marked
The tenth celebration of the Russel Botman Memorial Lecture and the eleventh anniversary of the Russel Botman Bursary Fund (RBBF) marked a significant milestone in honoring Prof. Russel Botman’s legacy. This year’s lecture saw a poignant address by Prof. Nico Koopman, who reflected on Botman’s storytelling and the wisdom embedded in his sayings. Prof. Koopman […]
Re-member in Spring
We are entering the season of new life. Spring, being the expression of new life, brings with it the sense that ‘the new’ can never be truly new without any connection to the old. It is in resting and dying that the new can be born. The new for the Russel Botman House came after […]
Daughters of Legacy
On 12 July, a remarkable human being passed away after an impressive life of meaning, giving, and nurturing. On the morning of 20 July, I attended the service of Celebrating a Wonderful Life of John Hess, where I came under the impression of a human being who walked with women. His walk with women was […]
Give, give and give
With the first semester behind us, our students are very focused on their academic and other responsibilities. They have proven that they are coping well with all the expectations as well-rounded beings at this stage in the preparation for their respective careers. We greatly admire them for their dedication and tenacity. We also appreciate it […]
One decade of legacy building
The sudden passing of Prof. Russel Botman, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University, on 28 June 2014, left us with initial shock and despair. We realised very quickly that despair is no place to dwell in if we take his life and works into serious consideration and reflection.
Freedom isn’t free
Freedom is hardly ever free, not given but fought for. This is also the case in the freedom that the decades of resistance before 1994, in particular, brought. They were decades and yes, historically, centuries of strife and resistance.
Feb 2024, A legacy of transformation
One of the markers of the transformative leadership by Prof Russel Botman is the steadfast movement toward an equitable, equal, open, and welcoming culture at the residences at Stellenbosch University. One such example is the establishment of a residence for senior students that hones new ways of living together. New ways that build, encourage, support, […]
Success for 2024
We start 2024 still mindful of how we ended the previous year. We ended with the celebration of the successes of our 2023 Russel Botman Bursary Fund recipients. Again, we would like to congratulate all of them, but most especially those who graduated during the December 2023 ceremonies. We are proud of the way that […]