On occasion, the PEN SA Board is asked to weigh in on issues it deems too complex and nuanced to distill into an unequivocal statement. Various PEN SA members have, on a number of occasions, asked the PEN SA Board… PEN SA extends a warm welcome to Pierre de Vos, who has joined the PEN South Africa Board. Prof De Vos is the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance and teaches in the area of Constitution al Law. He has… The Board of PEN SA is gravely concerned at reports of a raid by the Hawks yesterday afternoon on the home of journalist Jacques Pauw, author of The President’s Keepers. The Hawks obtained a search and seizure warrant from the… The first of February every year marks World Read Aloud Day, a day on which writers and members of the public read aloud to children. For this year’s #WRAD18, local literacy advocates Nal’ibali hoped that one million South African children… PEN SA is seriously concerned about the threats of violence levelled toward workers at cinemas showing the film Inxeba, calls by traditional leaders to ban the film, and successful attempts to stop the film being shown at cinemas this past weekend in the Eastern and Western Cape. PEN… 
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PEN SA Members Read Aloud to Children on #WRAD18
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PEN SA Condemns the Cancellation of Screenings of Inxeba
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