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"My hart breek. Bart kyk vir my in die truspieëltjie. Al my kindervrese is terug. Hoe gaan ek my en die seuns beskerm? Bart het geen selfbeheersing nie."

"The first time I broke bad news to a real, live family it went horribly. If it were an OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) station, I would have failed."

"Die suidoos slaag daarin om al die spinnerakke uit Elisabet se kop te waai. Dae nadat Johannes haar die volgende oggend nog bietjie stug plegtig met die hand gegroet het, voel sy lig en vry. Skoon gewoed deur ’n woeste binnewind."

"Ek hoop dat hierdie mense se sigbaarheid ander sal inspireer om kasdeure oop te skop. Makliker gesê as gedaan, ek weet."

"Since the first democratic elections in 1994, no party has held on to the third position in consecutive elections. Smaller political parties have always alternated in this position. Because it has claimed this spot, the only way up for the EFF must be to depose the DA and become the official opposition."

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"You might not be able to stop the event from happening, but you can avoid being blindsided by it."

"A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the white man is a celebration of multiculturalism and a plea for white people to do some ‘second line dancing’ for a change."

"The story brings good memories about Sister Aidan, because if you go to Duncan Village and ask the old ladies about Sister Aidan, everyone smiles you know, they just smile because they remember the beautiful person she was …"

"For much of the apartheid period — characterised by that special type of colonialism imposed from within — the German shepherd was, statistically speaking, the nation’s most popular breed. The white public wanted large, aggressive dogs to allay widespread fears of a black deluge overwhelming them."

"Ek is nie ’n kenner van die verskillende psigiatriese siektes nie, maar ek is ’n ma en ek het ’n kenner geword om my dogter te kan verstaan. Sy vertel graag dat ek voor haar weet wanneer sy ’n maniese episode gaan hê."

"The Atlantic slave trade not only shaped the futures of the New World countries that these slaves would later come to call home but also irrevocably hurt the economic prospects of the continent they left behind."

"We recognise when our pets are happy or sad, we understand the happy expression of an elephant wallowing in a muddy waterhole or a tired lion yawning under the shade of a tree at midday. But the mannerisms of bats, fish and mosquitoes, no."

"We all live on one planet for a reason, and that reason is to see how we can coexist, co-create, collaborate."

If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call.

An expert on serial murder and rape cases, Labuschagne saw it all in his fourteen and a half years in the SAPS.

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1986 was a pivotal year in South African history. It was the year of the vigilante, the year of the necklace – but also the year the talking began.

Die boek is ’n openhartige, deurleefde en provokerende teks van ’n bekende en gerekende teoloog. Dit verskaf ’n woordeskat en hoop vir diegene wat krities teenoor teologie staan. Die teks gee ’n binneblik op die NG Kerk en onlangse debatte en aktuele kwessies binne die kerk en samelewing, soos die gaydebat.

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