29 Januarie 2021 06:09 31-08-2020 NETWERK24 NUUS Onderhoud met die skrywer, Emile Joubert, oor sy nuwe bundel kortverhale getiteld, So Byna Blou. Foto s geneem by The Book Lounge in Roelandstraat, Kaapstad. Foto: Jaco Marais.
“A sign of a state being successful in its striving towards totalitarianism lies not so much in its implementation of laws and regulations deemed important to control its population as it does in its duping the populace into believing that this enforcement is necessary. As Iranian-American academic and author Azar Nafisi wrote: ‘The worst crime committed by totalitarian mindsets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.’”