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"Where was the evidence which suggested Van Rooyen's incompetence?"

"The students ... It’s a generation of people who are more and more convinced that they have been sold a lie ... And they are determined to put on the table some of the questions we have put under the carpet for a long time. All those difficult issues we have not tackled enough. And that shift, that cultural shift it seems to me is much more important than anything else, and it signals a new form of politics, at least on campuses."

"In our own skins: Comfortable or itchy, but stuck with it."

"Research into our first people's languages is important for our national heritage."

"A God in Ruins is many things. It is the story of a British family set against the historical background of the past century. It is a novel about war and its aftershocks. It is a fine inquiry into human nature. But above all, it is a declaration of love for literature, its power and its manifold mysteries."

"And I ask: How would you feel, today, if your dad weren’t once allowed into Claremont at night? If you knew that your family had been systematically and purposely undermined for hundreds of years?"

"We have always been very open to criticism within the band, simply because we truly know and trust where we’re coming from with each other."

Humpty Dumpty and Friends, a brand new children’s ballet by Robin van Wyk, opens at Artscape in Cape Town on Tuesday 5 January 2016.

"Search Woolf’s voyage out ..."

"I strongly recommend that all readers encounter for themselves the charming, humane, by turns hilarious and profound tales contained in this collection ..."

Performances take place at Artscape Theatre until December 23 - daily at 10:30.  

"We tend to say so easily, forget about the past and go on to the future; it just does not work. The real challenge is to remember, perpetrators as well as victims, to remember what needs to be worked through and what needs to be forgiven. And then try and work against the natural tendency of continuing the pattern of oppression, with only a reversal of the roles from time to time."

"Resisting the popular media projection that education is in crisis, I ask instead what kind of research is able to bring the complexity of our current educational experiences into fuller view."

"Afrikaans does not pose a problem that can be resolved simply by replacing it with English."

"Lay readers often experience problems with the peculiarities of legal language [...]. The aim of this article is to identify the syntactic properties of Afrikaans legal language that cause processing problems for lay readers of legal texts."

LitNet is among the websites and blogs awarded at this year's Arts Journalism Awards.

"At the end of the day you have human beings creating music to communicate to other human beings, which is a simple but essential concept ..."

"So I will build a sarcophagus in my heart for you. My memories of you will form the rocks of this shrine."

"You threw me away./ Said you were tired."

"Simply put: Am I reading her adult detective novels only because I liked (loved) Harry Potter?"