This piece was originally published on the Mail & Guardian By PEN SA member Glenda Daniels Attacks on journalists during protests are increasing and getting more violent every year. Both physical and ideological, they come from several sources: police, government...
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In September 2016, an appeals court upheld the prison sentence handed down to Iranian journalist Narges Mohammadi by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran in May this year. Mohammadi had been sentenced to five years in prison for ‘gathering and colluding...
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Statement from PEN SA President Margie Orford and PEN SA Executive Vice-President Mandla Langa: We write to you as our university campuses burn. There are running battles between students demanding a free, decolonialised education on the one hand and private...
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PEN SA Executive Vice-President Mandla Langa shared his poem “We Beg Your Pardon South Africa” on Twitter yesterday, writing that “Nostalgic souls have asked me to post one of my earliest poems which they feel has resonance with aspects of...
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The International PEN Congress took place in late September. It was hosted by Galician PEN in the beautiful old city of Ourense in northern Spain. It was a pleasure to attend the first Congress chaired by Jennifer Clement, PEN International’s...
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