MFM 92.6 Interviews
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First in the Family | Peer Mentoring, SOAR and Starting Without a Map
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Twelve. Recorded on Friday 16 October 2026. If nobody at home has done university before, there is no one to ask the small questions. What is a module? How does registration work? Is it normal to feel this lost in week two? This conversation…
The Extra Year That Is Not a Setback | Inside SU’s Extended Curriculum Programmes
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Fourteen. Recorded on Tuesday 20 October 2026. Offered the extended programme instead of mainstream? That letter can land like a verdict. It is not one. Stellenbosch University has run a STEM extended programme since 1995, and the data on where its graduates end up…
Teaching for Success | What Lecturers Do Behind the Scenes
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Thirteen. Recorded on Monday 19 October 2026. Nobody becomes a lecturer by being taught how to lecture. They become an expert in their field first, and the teaching comes after. This conversation is about the layer of student success you never see: how modules…
More Than Marks | Why Food Matters for Student Success
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Eleven. Recorded on Thursday 15 October 2026. Nobody learns, belongs or thrives on an empty stomach. We talk about student success as though it lives in study methods and marks, but for a significant number of students the question that decides the year is…
A Sky Full of Stars | Exam Season, and Everything This Series Taught Us
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Fifteen. Recorded on Thursday 22 October 2026. Fifteen conversations, and we end where most students are right now: a week out from exams, trying to work out what to study and when. This final episode is half practical exam preparation and half reckoning –…
Language and Belonging | Multilingualism, Identity and Who Feels at Home Here
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Ten. Recorded on Tuesday 29 September 2026. Most of us study, work and live in a second or third language. Most of us have also stayed quiet in a room because we were not confident enough in the language being spoken there. This conversation…
Reading Is How Learning Happens | The Reading Lab and Writing Lab Workshops
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Nine. Recorded on Thursday 17 September 2026. Most of your learning does not happen in a lecture hall. It happens when you read. Which makes reading the single skill most worth protecting, and the first one to lose out when your phone is within…
Solidarity walk and femicide vigil | Kgalalelo Rakgokong and Ursula Masuku on the SU Anti-GBV Community
As vigils and memorial runs take place across South Africa in response to the ongoing femicide crisis, students at Stellenbosch University are gathering to mourn, to stand together and to call for change on their own campus. Kgalalelo Rakgokong, co-founder of the SU Anti-GBV Community, and Ursula Masuku, a representative…
Your Voice, Your Classroom | Why Student Feedback Shapes How You Are Taught
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Eight. Recorded on Tuesday 15 September 2026. Be honest. When last did you fill in a module feedback survey properly, and did you ever find out whether anyone read it? Most students click submit and assume it disappears into a drawer. This conversation is…
Whose Home Was Safe? | Prof Amanda Gouws on Women, Lockdown and COVID Diaries
August was Women's Month, with its annual invitation to reflect on equality, care, work, safety and belonging. On SiyakhulaLive, that reflection turns backwards – to a time not so long ago when COVID-19 turned everything upside down, and to the question of what that moment looked like through the eyes…
Success for Whom? | Making Sure Every Student Belongs
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Seven. Recorded on Thursday 3 September 2026. Two students can sit in the same lecture hall, hand in the same assignment, and walk out with completely different senses of whether they belong there. This conversation asks whose definition of student success the university is…
Three Out of Four Maties | What Student Success Looks Like for Commuter Students
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Six. Recorded on Tuesday, 01 September 2026. Three out of every four Maties do not live in a university residence. Some walk in from Victoria Street. Some are up before dawn for a taxi from Khayelitsha or a lift club from Worcester. This conversation…
From Silos to Synergy | How Stellenbosch University's Integrated Support Model Works
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Three. Recorded on Friday 28 August 2026. Counsellors, academic advisers, faculty support coordinators, the CSCD, the Student Success Initiative. Students hear the names but rarely know who does what, or who to approach first. This conversation answers that — and argues you should not…
Academic Language Is Nobody's First Language | Inside SU's Reading and Writing Labs
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Five. Recorded on Friday 25 August 2026. You can read a paragraph three times and still have no idea what it said. That is not a sign that something is wrong with you. Academic language is its own language, and nobody grew up speaking…
Cracking the Code | What Learning Really Is, and How to Master It
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Four. Recorded on Friday 21 August 2026. You have been studying since Grade 1. Somewhere along the way, did anyone actually teach you how learning works? Most students arrive at university with habits built for school, discover those habits no longer hold, and conclude…
Confronting the Inheritance | Lidia Rauch on Apartheid's Granddaughter and White South Africans' Reckoning
July was Mandela Month, with its call to reflect on dignity, community and what we owe one another. On SiyakhulaLive, that reflection turns inward – to the question many white South Africans carry but rarely say aloud: what do I do with what I inherited? In this episode, recorded on…
Dignity in the Everyday | Qaqamba Mdaka on Residence Life, Belonging and Becoming at Stellenbosch University
July was Mandela Month, with its call to reflect on dignity, community and what we owe one another. On SiyakhulaLive, that reflection turns to a question every parent dropping a child at university quietly carries, and every first-year silently asks: will I belong here? In this episode, recorded on 15…
The Student Voice | Three Students on What Success Actually Costs
Recorded on Tuesday 4 August 2026. In the first episode the people who built Stellenbosch University's Student Success Initiative explained how it works. This week the students explain what it is like to need it. A gap year spent delivering pizzas. Nine modules in one semester. A first-generation student who…
Student Success Is Everyone's Business | Inside Stellenbosch University's Student Success Initiative
Every year, thousands of students arrive at Stellenbosch University and find the gap between school and higher education wider than anyone warned them. Some struggle quietly. Most do not know a support system already exists, or how to reach it. This conversation is about closing that gap. Jacolette Kloppers hosts…
Dignified From the Door | Abongile Quthu on Queer Rights and Access to Healthcare in South Africa
Pride Month has just closed, and July brings Mandela Month, with its call to reflect on dignity, justice and human well-being. On SiyaKhulaLive, that reflection turns to a question many South Africans don't have the luxury of taking for granted: what does it take for queer communities to access healthcare…