Today, on October 21st 2009, the International PEN Assembly of Delegates elected as International President, John Ralston Saul, to succeed Jirí Grušá who has held the post for six years. Jirí Grušá was one of the most important dissident Czech...
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What drove one man to set out to conquer the known world? What madness? What unquenchable desire? What love? Sebastian Burke, a British academic, has spent his whole life trying to understand the secret life of Alexander the Great and...
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Zapiro returns with his signature wry satirical style to ensure that his audience see-saws between shaking their heads in rueful agreement and snorting in mirth. The showerhead becomes a hovering decision-o-metre, Malema continues to teach us valuable lessons on how...
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Moses Tladi was the first black artist to exhibit at the SA National Gallery in Cape Town, in 1931. A gardener in Johannesburg during the 1930’s Tladi achieved a country-wide reputation as an outstanding landscape painter. He served his country...
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