Arja Salafranca is the editor of the Life Supplement of The Sunday Independent and is an award-winning poet and writer of fiction. Arja’s debut poetry collection A life stripped of illusions won the 1994 Sanlam Award for poetry and was followed by...
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London – 24 April 2014 This weekend, the 25 and 26 April 2015, marks the anniversary of the detention of six bloggers and three independent journalists arrested under Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation 2009. One year on there is little to celebrate....
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Niq Mhlongo is the author of three novels and a forthcoming short story collection. His first novel, Dog Eat Dog, was published in 2004 and translated into Spanish under the title Perro Come Perro in 2006. This Spanish edition won...
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PEN South Africa condemns the xenophobic attacks on Africans and various communities. The epicentre of these attacks in KwaZulu-Natal are an indictment on all South Africans and point to the bankruptcy of leadership that fanned the flames through intemperate utterances....
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Thursday April 16 This World Book Day, 23 April 2015, the Nal’ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaign is launching a special children’s literacy rights poster to assert and affirm for children what they need to become inspired and competent readers and writers. Endorsed...
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