It has been less than two months since South Africa held its sixth general elections on the 8th of May 2019 and Ramaphoria – a tongue-in-cheek term coined to describe the hope and euphoria felt by some South Africans following… To mark World Refugee Day (20 June), PEN centres around the world have published pieces highlighting the experience of writers in exile. PEN SA board member, Sisonke Msimang, has contributed a beautiful piece – first published by NZ Herald on… Following our initial feature of UCT’s Youth Day voices, we reached out to the University of the Western Cape’s Sideen Faith Louw, Thandeka Khoza and Andisiwe Mzingelwa and asked for their views on among other things student protests, civil society… In preparation for Youth Day, PEN SA Research Associate, Rowan Morar, immersed himself in the student protest perspectives of various young writers. We Are No Longer At Ease: The Struggle for #FeesMustFall (2018) is a collection of short essays, speeches… On the occasion of Youth Day 2019 (16 June), PEN SA has taken the opportunity to engage two student leaders from the University of Cape Town on what it means to be a young person in 2019, and the contemporary… PEN SA is sad to announce the passing of its Vice-President, Raymond Louw. Louw passed away on Tuesday, 4 June at the age of 93, less than 24 hours after his wife, Jean. During his more than 60 years as… 
SA News / 02 Jul 2019
Post-election: online hate speech on the rise in SA
SA News / 02 Jul 2019
Every refugee is an exile, Sisonke Msimang
Civil Society, SA News / 26 Jun 2019
“We are the future” – Youth Day from the perspective of student leaders (part 2)
SA News / 13 Jun 2019
Free Expression on Youth Day: A Review of ‘We Are No Longer At Ease: The Struggle for #FeesMustFall’
Civil Society, SA News / 13 Jun 2019
“We are the future” – Youth Day from the perspective of two UCT student leaders
SA News / 06 Jun 2019
A tribute to the late PEN SA Vice-President, Raymond Louw
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