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Betsie van Niekerk
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“My poetry collection Ronkedoor — about a solitary elephant bull that has been driven out of the herd — was written as a way of saying goodbye to my father after a motor accident. He spent many years doing research on the tsetse fly in Kenya. Our home was always full of books, stories, maps and artworks from Africa.”
Betsie van Niekerk first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ... so ook op die aarde: ’n onderhoud met Betsie van Niekerk. Interview by Estelle Kruger, LitNet, 3 April 2024.
“Because I taught teenagers for a long time, their world was familiar to me. Gamkab and, more recently, Anderkind received the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature.”
Betsie van Niekerk first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ... so ook op die aarde: ’n onderhoud met Betsie van Niekerk. Interview by Estelle Kruger, LitNet, 3 April 2024.
“In 32 years in a rural environment, I came to know people across the whole spectrum of possibilities of faith — from the most sophisticated to the simplest. I came to know people in all their helpless struggles with God, as well as their sober and sometimes critical acceptance of the teachings of the church.”
Betsie van Niekerk first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ... so ook op die aarde: ’n onderhoud met Betsie van Niekerk. Interview by Estelle Kruger, LitNet, 3 April 2024.
“The Kalahari and Namibia were, throughout our lives, places of escape and refuge for my somewhat unconventional minister husband and me. He painted, and together we came to know the veld, tree by tree, shrub by shrub, stone by stone. For hours I sat with him beside or beneath a tree, observing and making our own the textures and colours. Then he would sketch it, line by line, and paint it, brushstroke by brushstroke.”
Betsie van Niekerk first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ... so ook op die aarde: ’n onderhoud met Betsie van Niekerk. Interview by Estelle Kruger, LitNet, 3 April 2024.