Sermonizing: Antjie Krog

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Date and time Friday 18 January 2002 21:20 tot 21:35 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - foyer

South Africa and love. According to president Thabo M’Beki, AIDS has nothing to with sex, but everything with poverty. Free condoms were handed out, but the story goes they were all faulty due to the staple with which they were attached to the instructions, which were added in South Africa's 21 official languages. Antjie Krog is an author, poet and journalist. How about passion and love in her country? Listen to her sermon (Afrikaans spoken).

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Antjie Krog

(South Africa, 1952) is a poet, writer, academic and a cherished reciter. Her book Country of My Skull (2000, adapted for film in 2004) is a personal account of the proceedings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She published her autobiographical memoirs as A Change of Tongue (2003). Krog has won many prizes, including the Hertzog prize in South Africa and the 2018 Gouden Ganzenveer in the Netherlands. An anthology of her poetry was published in Dutch in 2010, titled Hoe zeg je dat (How Do You Say That), and Begging to be Black, the sequel to Country of My Skull and A Change of Tongue.
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