goeters

We need the penetrating light of the rational knowledge of ourselves that onse kennisvennoot can and must provide, to banish the ogres, the goggas, the frightening shadows, the warped images, the demons, die goeters in die bos, that make it inevitable that we will continue to define our neighbour and compatriot as The Other, the antithesis of our definition of ourselves.

Address on acceptance of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch 2004