Deputy Speaker, I hereby move without notice on behalf of the Chief Whip of the Majority Party:
That the House -
1) notes with great sadness the death of South African anti-apartheid novelist and influential campaigner, Andr P Brink, on Friday, 6 February 2015;
2) further notes that the author was travelling back from Amsterdam to South Africa on Friday when he became fatally ill during the flight;
3) acknowledges that he was best known for his 1979 novel, A Dry White Season, which focused on the death in detention of a black activist, and was filmed with Marlon Brando;
4) further acknowledges that he had been a literature professor at the University of Cape Town and had just received an honorary doctorate from the Universit Catholique de Louvain;
5) recognises that he was born in 1935 in Vrede, a small town in the Free State, and became famous for using Afrikaans to speak out against apartheid;
6) further recognises that his novel, Looking on Darkness, was banned by the apartheid government in 1974;
7) believes that his passion, hard work and courageous outspokenness against the apartheid government will continue to be our source of inspiration; and
8) extends its heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.
Agreed to.