Hein Willemse (University of Pretoria)

“Afrikaans Poets on the Mandelas”

Discussant: Jasper Walgrave (Hochschule der Künste, Bern)

Hein Willemse is Professor Emeritus, Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria (South Africa).  He has published widely on South African literature, particularly Black Afrikaans writing and Afrikaans oral traditions in southern Africa.

Jasper Walgrave recently completed his PhD dissertation «A Culture of Discreet Complicity. Swiss men mediating culture to and from South Africa 1948-1994» (University of Fribourg, 2024)