2004 Annual Report

In 2004, the University once again succeeded in achieving this fine balance most excellently: on the one hand, by offering a welcoming home to its students, but on the other hand by making them keen to use the equipment gained in this home to establish themselves adventurously in the world on the other side of the mountains,
beyond the vineyards.

The year- was characterised by the University's endeavour to create the space for people originating from a variety of backgmunds, with a wide variety of gifts and abilities, to live, move and grow as individuals in freedom and comfort, while still being introduced to the full advantage of a life in Matieland that can be celebrated with their fellow students.
This is succinctly contained in one of the five points of the Vision Statement of Stellenbosch University: "a campus culture that welcomes a diversity of people and ideas".