As South Africans prepare to participate in the relatively young constitutional democracy’s sixth general elections on the 8th of May 2019, there is much reason for gratitude and celebration. South Africa is a country in which freedom is constitutionally enshrined… Proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993, World Press Freedom Day is commemorated annually on the 3rd of May, to highlight the fundamental principles of press freedom. World Press Freedom Day enjoins us to evaluate the extent of press… I believe there is no greater and more abject violation against a people than the act of putting them behind bars; prison is a manifestation of the failure of reason on the part of the powerful, an inarticulate dread to… Writers converse in solitude with their words. By the nature of their work, they are amongst the loneliest people on earth. But writers in prison suffer a particularly acute and perverse castigation in their loneliness. They are punished precisely for… The 27th of April 2019 marks 25 years of democracy in South Africa. At PEN SA we find ourselves thinking carefully not only about the urgencies of present and future freedoms, but also about our country’s past. For the last… 
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“Punished for being good” – a biography of Justice Albie Sachs
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Freedom Day Message from PEN SA President, Nadia Davids
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