Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University has four campuses and a student population of 19,000, a third of whom are post-graduates and 400 of whom are international students. The University population is more than 30 percent non-white, while 98 percent of the students speak English as their first or second language.

Former president Nelson Mandela received an honorary doctorate from the University in 1996 and later wrote a personal note to AIFS students wishing them the best as "future leaders of the world."

African Studies courses open to international students are taught in English, as are a number of regular University courses described in this chapter. The University houses a modern, extensive library collection catalogued on a computerized database. Part of a network of five mutually-supported academic libraries in the Western Cape province, the library is electronically linked to major library databases worldwide. Its architecture is distinctive in that the library is entirely underground.