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"Come, let us create space for Afrikaans as well as the other indigenous languages – English is a world language, it is the greatest common factor among us and will remain standing without special assistance."

"I tend to be quite stressed out when I record in studio because I would like everything to be perfect, which is never possible."

"One thing I have realised is that the music you put out to the world will be there forever, so I wanted my second album to be right."

"Imagine if centres and schools were started at the university to actively boost research, tuition and translation services in Xhosa so that students from Khayelitsha and the Transkei were no longer stuck with the choice of studying in either their second or their third language. Imagine if lecturers engaged one another in their respective first languages and broadened one another’s horizons?"    

"How do you get someone out of the township? The answer to this question of transformation is simple: educate them in their own language!"

"Afrikaans has never been the enemy; the use of the language to exclude people from conversation is the problem. Not the language!"

"The youth are actively participating. Expect them to indicate the pace at which we move forward."

"Afrikaans should be seen and accepted by non-Afrikaans students as a language spoken by the majority of people in the Western Cape. There are more Afrikaans-medium schools in the Western Cape than in the rest of the country combined. Surely this is a fact that cannot simply be ignored. Those students, the majority of whom are coloured/black Afrikaans mother-tongue speakers, have a right to be taught in the language of their choice – Afrikaans. The abandonment of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at universities will have an effect on the entire Afrikaans community in South Africa."

"Once again, I find myself perplexed by your intentions, OS. You need to jump off this taaldebat train, because it’s clear your demands for transformation go so much further than language – and rightly so."

" ...the only way forward for Afrikaans is for its proponents to stop privileging it above other indigenous South African languages and actively and practically support the development of all South African languages."

"The apartheid legacy does still haunt the nation, and seems set to continue doing so for a while."

"As continental Africans we tend to 'forget' the inclusion in its territorial circumference of several island states adjacent to the main land mass, the small multi-island state of Cape Verde ..."

"Afrikaans is fossilised there. Their idea of what it means to be Afrikaans comes from an earlier time. Interestingly, as the linguist Andries Coetzee points out in the film, this also means that they predate apartheid."

"This book is a great practical guide for entrepreneurs and newcomers."

"People from far and wide have phoned to say how happy they are that we are bringing a more inclusive, more festive offering to Durban."

Die South African Book Fair van 2015 is in Johannesburg se Turbinesaal aangebied. Izak de Vries was daar.

More than 650 individuals in the arts, culture and heritage sector endorsed the Unite Against Corruption campaign in less than a week.

The sixth chapter of the annual Midlands Literary Festival takes place over the weekend of 21–23 August 2015 in Howick.

Why did Hannelie Coetzee burn a 5 ha artwork into the grassland?

"Go Set a Watchman must be seen for what it is, a once discarded manuscript that is historically of enormous literary value as a long-lost cousin of its brilliant relative."