LITMATIE

Victoria Street dust fills the air and the February heat beats down as life stampedes back to the Stellenbosch University campus. The clubs are full and the tennis courts welcomes its new group of stoner occupants. Residence rooms are awkwardly inhabited by strangers getting to know each other and Tinder is populated with familiar faces coming back for round two after their December flings have been fully flung. The year ahead promises to not be like the three years preceding it and 2023 is a blank page. As writers, photographers and designers, Die Matie’s editorial has already begun to fill up the pages. We’ve been scrapbooking

Welcoming Week(s) , as a record that we were here too. Tasked with the duty and opportunity to archive this history from the perspective of the students, we’ve jumped all in. We cheered with the first years as they filled up the Danie Craven with a crowd it hasn’t seen in years. We listened to students lining up outside the SRC office in hopes they’d have a bed to sleep in and we promised to tell their story to the best of our abilities. We also checked that line outside De Lapa. We’ve even braved the heat to see Vensters and we’ve stayed until late to witness the wonders of

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Dreamville. Write it all down and take an obnoxious amount of photos. Go to events and make friends. Take the good with the bad and study more than you kuier.

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Editor-in-Chief

Aurelia Mouton

Managing Editor Tiaan

Booyens

Content Editor Lesedi Mnisi

Head Reporter Anakin Curtis

News Amber April

Student Life Jani Roux

Dag & Nag Kobus Erasmus

Sport Kezia Daniels

Online Emma Hamman

Photo Editor Emma Jane

Metcalf

Layout Editor Jaime Watkins

Sub-editor (Afrikaans)

Rentia Meyer

Ads Manager Morufa Raji

Financial Manager Emma Cochrane

Make the most of the time you spend in this chaotic, beautiful town. Make new friends and keep up with your friends from highschool. Don’t sleep with anyone in any of your classes and always be polite to your lecturers. Go to Varsity Cup and take part in your res events, no matter how silly it seems. Be willing to be an involved member of the student community and leave more behind than you take. The best advice I could give you as a veteran student? Take notes.. For memories’ sake.

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Obituary Of

Oshwin Andries

Date of birth:

24 February 2003

Date of death:

4 February 2023

Resided: Cloetesville, Stellenbosch

The ambitious Oshwin Andries (19) passed away in the arms of his mother on 4 February 2023 due to a stabbing incident that took place on 29 January 2023, at a get-together in Klapmuts.

He is survived by his mother Natasha Andries, and his older brother, Leeirwin Andries.

At the age of 18, Andries made his professional debut at Stellenbosch Football Club (FC) after graduating from the Stellenbosch FC