STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY

Sampie, as Prof Sampie Terreblanche was affectionately known to all at the University of Stellenbosch, had a favourite teaching trick. He would ask each of his 1,000-plus first-year economics students to write an essay on why we need economic growth... The Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University would like to build on prof Terreblanche's extraordinary legacy. An annual postgraduate prize for the best essay on the topic of inequality already carries his name. But we hope to do more. We have established a Sampie Terreblanche-fund that will be used for PhD bursaries on the topics of economic history, poverty and inequality, and institutional economics. If financially feasible in future, we also hope to establish a titled chair in his name... Considering that Economics has only existed as a general academic discipline at Western universities for some 140 years, the Department of Economics at the University of Stellenbosch has a fairly long history. In fact, our Department is..

Also known as: Sampie Terreblanche, Sampie Terreblanche-fund