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Richard van der Ross: politieke aktivis én ‘n gentleman
Richard van der Ross en Michael le Cordeur tydens die UWK se somergradeplegtighed in Februarie 1980 (foto verskaf) Politieke aktivis, skrywer, navorser, opvoedkundige. Dis hoe ek die eerste swart...
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Hulde aan Richard van der Ross: ’n Kuiper se laaste hou teen die hoepel
Richard van der Ross en Heindrich Wyngaard (http://www.litnet.co.za/essay-richard-van-der-ross-se-in-our-own-skins/) “The news came with the force of a personal shock.” In Augustus 2012, Neville...
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In Memoriam: Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile – A letter by Breyten Breytenbach
We are going to miss Bra Willie – his laugh so big and so communicative, and always so as not to embarrass the world with the sadness of his eyes. He lived as if he was a reed for the tunes and the...
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Tribute to Keorapetse William "Bra Willie" Kgositsile
Keorapetse Kgositsile (Photo: Naomi Bruwer) It is hard to write about loss, and even harder when that loss is of a literary giant. It is a tall order, this. What can I say about Keorapetse William “Bra...
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A tribute to Poet Laureate Keorapetse “Bra Willie” Kgositsile
Fred Khumalo and Keorapetse Kgositsile (Photo: Naomi Bruwer) "...somewhere on this continent the voice of the ancients warns that those who shit on the road will meet flies on their way back." –...
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’n Huldeblyk aan Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela (Foto: Tom Beetz - Flickr , CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) Die Suid-Afrikaanse trompetspeler, musiekvervaardiger en anti-apartheidsaktivis Hugh Masekela is 23 Januarie oorlede na ’n lang...
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Obituary: Stanley GM Ridge
Stan Ridge Photo: UWC Stanley GM Ridge, or Stan, as we all knew him, passed away too soon, on Tuesday 30 January. He was not only a man of letters in the widest understanding of the term, but a...
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Stanley GM Ridge (°1942, Durban) was gedurende meer dan vier decennia verbonden aan de Universiteit van Westkaapland, vanaf zijn aanstelling als hoogleraar Engels in 1979 tot aan zijn emeritaat in...
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Eulogy to Raymond Danowski – in sacred memory
Raymond Danowski (permission for the publication given by Sandra Olivier-Danowski) Delivered at the wake at Raymond’s home in Stellenbosch on Friday 9 February 2018. Present: friends and members of his...
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Sampie Terreblanche (17 April 1933 – 17 Februarie 2018)
’n Blywende indruk – dis wat Sampie Terreblanche gelaat het. As student kon ek kwalik deur die vlamme en rook van my eie storm en drang sien. Die establishment het in die vroeë 90’s ’n bitter nare...
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Die “mal professor van Stellenbosch” se groot nalatenskap
Solomon Johannes Terreblanche 17/4/1933–17/2/2018, omstrede én geliefde prof Sampie, Afrikaner, ekonoom, skrywer, onderhandelaar, kritiese stem teen ongeregtigheid is verlede Saterdag aan breinkanker...
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Hierdie huldeblyk-persvrystelling is ontvang vanaf Universiteit Stellenbosch “Dit is met groot hartseer dat ek namens die Universiteit Stellenbosch ons diepe meegevoel betuig teenoor die familie van...
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Love in a time of burning: Remembering Winnie Mandela
Winnie Mandela (Photo: Superikonoskop (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons) What is this furtive mourning I am doing? Why do I find myself actually spending my time defending my right to...
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Winnie – ’n storie om te vertel
Winnie Mandela (Foto: Superikonoskop (Eie werk) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons) Op haar 80ste verjaarsdag sweef sy statig tussen haar gaste deur, neem sy ’n foto met Patricia de Lille, hou sy...
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Winnie Mandela: ’n enigma
Winnie Mandela in 2008 (Foto: Wikimedia Commons) Winnie Mandela was nog altyd ’n kontroversiële figuur – ’n vryheidsvegter, ’n prisonier, iemand wat nie geskroom het om geweld aan te moedig ter wille...
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Winnie Mandela se dood ontbloot ons almal se donker kant
Skielik staan ons as Suid-Afrikaners nakend voor die spieël en ons onthou apartheid se donker kant. Skielik besef ons dat ons almal ’n donker kant het. Ironies genoeg het Henry Jeffreys, eerste en...
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Huldeblyk: Cas van Rensburg
Foto: Petrovna blog Cas van Rensburg was sekerlik die mees belese en talentvolste kollega met wie ek ooit saamgewerk het. ’n Joernalis wat harde nuusstories kon skryf en net daarna insigvolle werk oor...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Jan Engelen
Jan Engelen is dood; ’n formidabele talent is weg. Daar word nou in die bos neffens my gekap. Dít laat my ver terugdink ... Ek en Jan het in 1972, as nuwelinge, saam by die destydse TRUK (Transvaalse...
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Philip Roth (1933–2018)
Milan Kundera het eenkeer geskryf dat die taak van die romankuns nie is om filosofie te wees nie, ook nie om geskiedenis of sielkunde te wees nie, maar om aspekte van menslike bestaan te ondersoek wat...
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In memoriam: JC (Kay) de Villiers, 7 March 1928 – 5 June 2018
JC (Kay) de Villiers (Foto: Jaco Marais Publieke domein, Wikipedia) Jacquez Charl (Kay) de Villiers was born as the third child to Carel van der Merwe de Villiers and Susanna Johanna Joubert on 7 March...
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