PEN South Africa has concerns about the Copyright Amendment Bill which the government plans to introduce to bring about changes to copyright law. A major issue is the proposal to invest perpetual copyright in the state when the owner of...
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ZP Dala, a debut novelist and PEN South Africa member, was subjected to a severe physical assault and harassment after she expressed admiration for the work of Salman Rushdie amongst others. Instead of celebrating the launch of her first novel...
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PEN South Africa has partnered with Open Book since its inaugural festival in 2011 and this year we are very pleased to announce that we are bringing both Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov and PEN SA Executive Vice-President Mandla Langa to...
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PEN South Africa has partnered with Open Book since the inaugural festival in 2011. This year we are bringing Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov and our Executive Vice-President Mandla Langa to the event and the Open Book organisers have generously agreed...
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By Mandla Langa, written for Issue 5 2015 of the newsletter to the PEN SA membership The literary community in South Africa might find a lot to gripe about. However we are spoilt for choice when it comes to subject...
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