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Erik de Ridder

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Erik de Ridder is an undergraduate student of civil engineering and economics at the University of Cape Town.

He firmly believes the pursuit of happiness, bound to the deepening of democracy, the proliferation of broader and substantive social justice, equality, and realization of peace and the fair rule of law, rooted in the principles of Ubuntu, to be the broader aspirational and categorical, pursuit of his generation.



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Erik de Ridder
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I have become product of my environment in so far as my environment has become a product of me. To say this to you is as saying it to me - notwithstanding the less than obvious soliloquy, such is the truth and absolute nature of agency.

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