Willem "Wim" Johan Simon de Villiers (born 1959) is a South African doctor and the 12th rector and vice-chancellor of Stellenbosch University.
[2] Wim de Villiers formed a management team in 2015 to resolve the language issue on behalf of the university.
The management team decides that all teaching at Stellenbosch University will be facilitated in English and that substantial academic support will be made available in other South African languages according to students' needs.
[5] In October 2019, the Democratic Alliance called for an independent investigation into De Villiers' alleged attempts to bribe Judge Edwin Cameron by offering Cameron the chancellorship in exchange for a decision in the Constitutional Court of South Africa in favor of Stellenbosch University's policy to abolish Afrikaans as a language of instruction.
On Sunday 27 October 2024, Edwin Cameron accused Wim De Villiers of fraud involving the report on Wilgenhof residence.