'Culture in South Africa is a necessary ingredient of democratic transformation - it must have full participation as a site of exchange of ideas between people. Debate is a sign of life ... Art is not a pure phenomenon but a language that challenges and complicates our relationship with the world'

Okwui Enwezor, artistic director of the Second Johannesburg Biennale.

Jeremy Cronin, poet.

J.M. Coetzee, writer.