Students encourage lecturers after fire

Anja van Niekerk (left) and Marié Patterson, lecturers of the School of Accounting at Stellenbosch University, are reading messages of encouragement from their students, with the damaged Van der Sterr Building in the background.

A fire destroyed the third floor and roof of the northern and eastern wings of the building, which accommodates various departments and divisions of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences including the School of Accounting. Accounting students wrote messages to their lecturers and fastened them onto the barriers in front of the building.