Degenaar in Dialogue: An Essay in Four Parts Part Four: What Remains?
Degenaar in Dialogue: An Essay in Four Parts Part Four: What Remains? Degenaar’s last years Johan Degenaar died on 22 July 2015, at the age of eighty-nine. He had withdrawn from public life a decade or more before. This withdrawal was probably not a conscious decision on his part, but the result of his increasing frailty and deteriorating eyesight, and the increasing frailty of his wife Jetty, to whom he was devoted. Degenaar continued to publish academic and popular articles regularly until 2000, engaging vigorously with a range of contemporary issues. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Stellenbosch University In 2002. He took part in a biographical interview with Pieter Duvenage in 2005. [1] In what may have been his final public contribution in his own voice, he did a short interview with Anton van Niekerk in 2006, looking back on his career on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. [2] In 2007, the Degenaars moved from their house in Stellenbosch, where they had lived f...