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What comes to my mind when I think of South African literature is awareness and education

— Niq Mhlongo

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I’m very sceptical about book prizes and always have mixed feelings when they are announced

The second book is always a challenge because of the reception the first book received

I lament the fact that everything good that represents Joburg has shifted and that the attention of city planners is now focused on places like Rosebank and Sandton, leaving the city centre neglected

If you don’t develop eyes in the back of your head, you won’t survive in Joburg. It’s a university without a professor.

I think every writer is, one way or the other, a literary diplomat, whether travelling or not

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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