A Dutch friend recommended the website of the television station VPRO, “Holland Doc.” I have been meaning to blog about it for a while. During downtime I have often gone to watch some of the documentaries there. The Africa page and the South Africa page (no other country is specifically indexed) are current favorites of mine. A few days ago I sat through a 1 hour 17 minutes interview with writer JM Coetzee about writing, Apartheid, boredom, etcetera. Coetzee does not always answer the question. It is a sort of dance. It is for the 2000 program “Van de Schoonheid en de Troost” (“Of Beauty and Consolation”) Coetzee is interviewed by Wim Kayzer. (The interviews were later published as a book). It is very good.
UPDATE: I should have mentioned that the introduction in Dutch (about the setting, Coetzee’s unease about agreeing to the interview) takes about 8 minutes before the question and answer session (in English) commences.
HT: Wendy Willems.
Leo Africanus 