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"If Dudley was never meant to wave the magical fairy wand, to turn Nasson from a self-confessed numerical and scientific dunce into an Einstein, then he definitely succeeded in inspiring him to become a formidable historian. History matters is scientific proof!"

"When something in my life was changing, my hair, too, had to undergo some form of change."

"Intercultural education promotes a type of epistemic openness to the knowledges of all human beings."

"Judith Mason was without any doubt a maestro. Her paintings are meticulously crafted."

The artist Judith Mason (78) died in White River on 29 December 2016. Herman Lategan decided to ask her daughters Tamar and Petra what they remember about their strong, gentle mother.

“Lucy’s Dream is an engaging children’s story that reveals slices of life of a little girl living in the fishing community in Simon’s Town up until the 1960s.”

"In the same way that we have Australian English, American English, and so on, we have South African English. Obviously all of these Englishes have a lot in common with British English, but they also have many unique aspects."

"For me, this book is an unsparing quest for meaning on so many levels and one certainly deserving of the highest accolades."

"Told with great candour and in her inimitable, forthright style, Vollenhoven’s is one of the most important South African autobiographies to have appeared."

"The story of our research cooperation has just started."

Acclaimed playwright Louis Viljoen’s new one-woman show, Oh Baby, I'm a wild one, debuts at Alexander Bar & Café in December 2016. 

"We were told we are no longer stuck
On the bottom floor
Vote for me
I will set you free ..."

"I always wrote for myself, but I now try to write more for the listener and how best I can structure the song so the message reaches him or her quickly and concisely."

“There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from the beginning.”

"... my eyes were tired
from the glare of dark men"

"I choose a leatherback
with whimsical face
and remember
that turtles are our myth"

"and the footsteps of the people with jobs
hurrying past the sleepers"

Tom Dreyer's books The Long Wave (English) and Dorado (Afrikaans) were launched at Die Ouwe Klok last week. Dreyer was interviewed by Dawid de Villiers. Watch the video.

"What Afrikaans has developed, what English developed over a period of time, is the way of being able to teach a complete foreigner the language, and that is what we need for Zulu."

"The most important hip hop album of 2016 – and one of the biggest releases of the year – dropped in the same week Republican Donald Trump stunned the world with a surprise presidential victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton."