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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PEN SA member Michele Magwood is the Contributing Books Editor of the Sunday Times and convener of the Sunday Times Literary Awards. The winners of the awards were announced on Saturday with The Barry Ronge Fiction Prize going to Nkosinathi...
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PEN South Africa has expressed a strong protest at the suspension of three senior South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) journalists apparently for protesting at a news conference at an order prohibiting them from covering a Right2Know protest outside the SABC...
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The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development recently proposed the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, which is expected to be tabled in Parliament by September, according to the Cape Argus. Gadeeja Abbas writes that as...
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