Elsa Joubert

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Elsa Joubert


Born
in Paarl, South Africa
October 19, 1922

Died
June 14, 2020

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Elsa (Elsa) Antoinette Murray Joubert was the author of several (travel) books that concern themselves with life in Africa, the relationships between people and the conflicts between cultures.

Joubert grew up in Paarl and matriculated from the all-girls school La Rochelle in Paarl in 1939. She then studied at the University of Stellenbosch from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942 and an SED (Secondary Education Diploma) in 1943. She continued her studies at the University of Cape Town which she left with a Master's degree in Dutch-Afrikaans literature at in 1945.

After graduating, she taught at an all-girls high school in Cradock, then worked as the editor of the women’s pages of Huisgenoot, a well-known Afrikaans famil
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Die reise van Isobelle

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Ons wag op die kaptein

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Reisiger

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Missionaris

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'n Wonderlike Geweld

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Gordel van smarag: 'n reis ...

3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1997
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“Ek sit my kop in my hande en probeer stil word, stiller en stiller, en die dun vliesie, die onsigbare bindende weefsel om die deel van my brein wat my geheue bymekaarhou, wat my in staat stel om op die hede te bly fokus, begin deurskif – emosie laat dit maklik gebeur – en deur die draderige openinge begin herinnering deurkom, helende herinnering, stadig, in groot detail, langsaam, daar is nie haas nie, dit moet stewig opgebou word. Hieruit kom selfheling.”
Elsa Joubert, Spertyd

“Daar is ’n dun skilletjie om ons brein wat ons in die hede anker. Maar soos ’n mens oud word, kom daar skeurtjies in die skil, soos ’n ou laken skif. Dan stroom die verlede daardeur, ontydig of nie. Dis hoekom oumense deurmekaar raak, of hulle konsentrasie swak word, of hulle dinge soos sleutels verloor.”
Elsa Joubert, Spertyd

“Dié tyd kom vir ons ook nader. En ons weet so min.” Sy antwoord baie sag: “Sy moet oorstap oor die rivier, maar sy sal nie weet waar sy is voor sy nie daar is nie. Dit hinder my nie dat ons nie weet nie.”
Elsa Joubert, Spertyd
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