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LitNet: Universiteite

Hoe kan huishoudings beter beplan en doelwitte stel? Freek Robinson gesels met Jacolize Meiring van die Buro vir Marknavorsing (Unisa). 

"Attended by 150 persons from various regional and international universities, as well as participants from civil society, the conference occurred in the wake of the release of the Khampepe Report, which highlights, among other things, the lived experiences particularly of students and staff of colour at SU."

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Nadat Reghard Brits op 26 sy doktorsgraad in die Regte behaal het, was hy senior lektor en medeprofessor by die Universiteit van Pretoria, en die boek Real Security Law het uit sy pen verskyn. Hier vertel hy van sy navorsing oor Sakereg en Saaklike Sekerheidsreg.

"While I was sitting in one of the conference sessions, I recalled a discussion we’d had in school 35 years before. It was about the name of the school which I matriculated from. The issue was, who is this person whom Luckhoff, our school, was named after?"

"Is dit enige wonder dat kognitiewe dissonansie toenemend in openbare Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite aan die orde van die dag is?" 

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"toe ek wakker word 
was dit
winter"

"Ons land verdrink in bloed
want ons laat haat
soos onkruid
in ons harte aanteel."

"en verby ons huis 
weerklink dwarsfluitklanke
waar die skepping juig 
in tortelgesang"

"The conclusion is reached that although no ecstatic mystical encounter is described, these poems deal with man’s intense awareness of God, his effort to comprehend the divine, and his realisation of the brokenness of this worldly existence."

"Daar word tot die slotsom gekom dat De Villiers ’n onprotestantse aanvoeling vir die mistieke gehad het, en eie aan mistici ’n afkeer van dogma ervaar het."

"I come to the Race and Transformation Conference looking for expert, substantive ways of understanding race and transformation globally, and at Stellenbosch University. I crave an ethical and empirical sense-making, gatvol of the patriarchal, anecdotal tales I am fed, before being silenced."

"The article concludes that only strengthening the current approach will not be enough to reach the objectives because from the start, South Africa did not effectively implement the multi-agency approach."

"Die antwoord op die navorsingsvraag van hierdie artikel, is dat deur slegs die huidige benadering te versterk nie genoegsaam sal wees om die doelwitte teen 2030 te bereik nie, omdat Suid-Afrika nie die multi-agentskapbenadering van die begin af effektief geïmplementeer het nie."

In hierdie video gesels Izak de Vries met die digter Louis du Plessis oor sy bundel Teen Helderberg.

"Ek het as kind goed kon verstaan hoekom Esau sy eersgeboortereg in die Bybel aan Jakob verkoop het vir ’n pot lensiesop. Die transaksie het op die oog af baie redelik vir my gelyk. Dis nou natuurlik op die aanname dat dit ’n pot lensiesop soortgelyk was aan my ma s’n."

 Is Koos Kombuis 'n "Pietjansnotjie"?