Nico Koopman

Vicerector for Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel, Stellenbosch University

[Nico Koopman @NicoKoopman2]

A simple plea to my fellow South-Africans. More freedom asks for more responsibility, more civil obedience, more awareness that the pandemic is with us and deadly, more understanding that freedom is not only freedom from, but especially freedom for preserving life and livelihood.

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Let us stop suggesting that reasonability and rationality is only possible where emotion is sidelined. (Let us get liberated from this narrow understanding of rationality!)

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1 June - International Day for the Protection of Children:
What is happening to our children this very day, and what will happen to them tomorrow, is the acid test for a society of dignity, healing, justice, freedom, and equality through equity (as phrased in the SA Constitution)

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Please bring Hirschill. Please bring Willemse. Please bring Curwin etc.! Playmakers! Wedstrydwenners a la Cheslin. Please, open your eyes!!!Please show trust in creative, innovative players🙏🙏🙏

[Nico Koopman @NicoKoopman2]

If you want to go through life without criticism - do nothing; say nothing; be nothing (Aristotle adjusted).

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@ArchbishopThabo Congratulations and Blessings Arch!!!👌

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“Americans pride themselves on speed, but speed is often just another name for violence ... But I know that children are God’s gift to us to slow us down.” (American theologian, Stanley Hauerwas)

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The perfect is the enemy of the good and the great.

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@PThU_NL Gefeliciteerd!!! Sal dit graag wil lees!!!

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@MethulaRev Rev, SU’s Centenary Declaration expresses the ambivalence you refer to. We commemorate by (1)deeply regretting and apologising for our contribution to injustices, and by (2) celebrating successes. We commit ourselves afresh to our continent with all its challenges.

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Congratulations Stellenbosch University and University of Cape Town - 100 years old today! Our societies need universities and sciences that advance a life of dignity and healing, justice and freedom, equity and equality for all!!!

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Our president!!!Our president!!! Our president!!! Our president!!! Our president!!!

[Nico Koopman @NicoKoopman2]

2018 - no more worry and hurry, no more fear and fright, no more anxiety and arrogance; only the assurance of faith, the assertiveness of hope, the attentiveness of love!

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We read to: acquire new knowledge; have existing knowledge confirmed
afresh; acquire new vocabulary to express knowledge better.

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Etiese leiers maak morele kom-promisse; hulle kies voorlopig 2de prys,en beloof saam (com-promissio) om te werk vir eerste prys.🙏

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@ArchbishopThabo Thank you, dear Arch!!!

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Etiese leiers leef met broosheid, beperkinge-besef, belydenis, berou, boetvaardigheid, bekering, blydskap oor genade!🙏

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My president! My president! My president! My president! My president!

[Nico Koopman @NicoKoopman2]

Leaders practice the virtue of attention-paying, and use all their senses to sense and make sense of what’s going on around them.