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Art and the search for meaning - 155 days ago

“A picture is worth a thousand words” – this is a popular and frequently-heard saying. And yet it cannot be taken at face value. Philosophers and artists have during the past hundred years or so argued about the purpose and content of art, ever.
Topics: Uncategorized

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Nature’s fragile bounty and our insensitivity - 212 days ago

Recently I spent a week with my family at a resort on the shore of the Hartebeespoort Dam, that lovely stretch of water in the valley of the Crocodile River in the North West Province of South Africa.It is a beautiful part of the country nestled in...
Topics: environment, pollution, Uncategorized

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Sweet the rain’s new fall - 403 days ago

The past few days in Pretoria have been rainy, not the torrential rain that has plagued the Western Cape and caused such disruption, but good rain has fallen nevertheless. As always, such rain brings new life to a garden, new leaves and flowers and...
Topics: Uncategorized

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The Two Helens of Great Renown - 404 days ago

Two Helens have epitomized opposition to apartheid over the course of many years. On the one hand (is it the right hand?) was Helen Suzman, whose death this week finally brought the era of the two Helens to an end, and on the other hand (definitely the...
Topics: Helen Joseph, Helen Suzman, human rights, Uncategorized

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Tolerance and fervor - 448 days ago

I am at one with Frantz Fanon when he writes: “I do not trust fervor.” (in Black Skin, White Masks, 1967; originally Peau Noire, Masques Blancs, 1952)Somehow, honest debate and discussion turns into diatribe and vindictiveness when “intense and...
Topics: Current Affairs Comments

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