PEN SA welcomes the Press Ombudsman’s ruling that several Independent Media titles need to apologise for their reporting of the settlement with former Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois. PEN South Africa expressed its alarm at Independent Media’s treatment of Dasnois...
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Dear friends Many of you will have followed the intense debate that has swirled around the rescinding of an invitation to the Danish journalist and writer, Flemming Rose, to give the TB Davie lecture on Academic Freedom at the University...
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PEN South Africa, one of the two South African affiliates of the international institution composed of writers, poets, editors and journalists, who promote literature and freedom of expression, is outraged at the summary dismissal of eight journalists by the SA...
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When the Copyright Amendment Bill was tabled last year, both PEN SA and PEN Afrikaans submitted comments (read PEN SA’s statement here) and informed their members, consisting of writers, publishers, translators, editors and journalists, of the possible detrimental effects the...
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Statement from the Southern Africa Litigation Centre: 12 July, 2016 The undersigned organisations condemn the increasing acts of harassment and intimidation against journalists in Lesotho, exemplified by the recent attack against the editor of the Lesotho Times newspaper and the...
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