By Newsflash News Agency
16 may 2010
A war of words broke out between two of South Africa’s leading Afrikaans writers at a literary festival in Franschhoek in the Boland when Rian Malan made derogatory remarks about the country.
Using the strongest possible terms, Malan said he was not only disillusioned, he was actually furious.
All he could see was darkness as the country could not solve its problems.
Leading poet and writer Antjie Krog was quick to slam Malan’s outburst, saying that it was easy for people like him and other whites to sit on the sidelines and complain but do nothing to find solutions.
Malan’s outburst came during a panel discussion about South Africa’s future after the 2010 World Cup tournament.
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Did Antjie get it wrong, perhaps?
One local thinks so "...she was looking far too narrowly at what is going on, and missed the widespread actions of countless ‘little efforts’ which are probably our major hope."
Read the whole comment at http://thefranschhoekmonth.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-antjie-missed.html
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