Hard work pays off for top SPL student
Dumisani Sondlo decided on the first day that he started studying towards his honours degree at the School of Public Leadership (SPL) at Stellenbosch University that he wanted to be the top student...
View ArticleSPL delivers long term results
Deferred dividends. This is how Prof Kobus Mϋller, director of the School of Public Leadership (SPL) summarises the successes of this School. “One of our many challenges is to address the wicked...
View ArticleSU’s SPL helps municipalities manage their finances
More than 500 municipal employees in the Western Cape involved in financial management have since September 2010 been enrolled for municipal minimum competency training by Stellenbosch University’s...
View ArticleStellenbosch professor co-authors UN sustainability report
By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times the current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is “decoupled”...
View ArticleSU School of Public Leadership hosts Western Cape Human Settlements Academic...
The government frequently boasts that since 1994 it has built over 2,5 million houses for the poor. But have these houses really changed the quality of life of those who benefited? This was the...
View ArticlePublic Protector to speak at SPL Public Leadership Forum
Adv Thuli Madonsela, the Public Protector will be the first guest speaker at the Public Leadership Forum that will be launched on 1 June by Stellenbosch University’s School of Public Leadership (SPL)....
View ArticleSchool of Public Leadership tweets in cyberspace
Helen Zille does it. So does Paris Hilton. And Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama, and unknown Mr Jones in Pofadder. In fact, millions of people who think others might find their comments interesting are...
View ArticleProf Gavin Woods looks forward to arms deal revelations
Prof Gavin Woods, Director of the Anti-corruption Centre for Education and Research (ACCERUS) at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) School of Public Leadership (SPL), has welcomed the appointment of a...
View ArticleResearch aims to find workable solutions to real problems
Searching for workable solutions to real problems. That is what research conducted by students of the MPhil Programme in Sustainable Development Planning and Management is all about. (Click here to...
View ArticleGreece should leave Eurozone, German parliamentarian says
Will Greece be forced to leave the Eurozone? If Michael Glos, a member of the German Bundestag (Federal Parliament) and a former Federal Minister of Economics and Technologies, could have his way,...
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