It has been less than two months since South Africa held its sixth general elections on the 8th of May 2019 and Ramaphoria – a tongue-in-cheek term coined to describe the hope and euphoria felt by some South Africans following...
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To mark World Refugee Day (20 June), PEN centres around the world have published pieces highlighting the experience of writers in exile. PEN SA board member, Sisonke Msimang, has contributed a beautiful piece – first published by NZ Herald on...
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Following our initial feature of UCT’s Youth Day voices, we reached out to the University of the Western Cape’s Sideen Faith Louw, Thandeka Khoza and Andisiwe Mzingelwa and asked for their views on among other things student protests, civil society...
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Following our initial feature of UCT’s Youth Day voices, we reached out to more students involved in recent student movements, Sideen Faith Louw (University of the Western Cape), Thandeka Khoza (University of Pretoria) and Andisiwe Mzingelwa. We asked questions focussed...
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In preparation for Youth Day, PEN SA Research Associate, Rowan Morar, immersed himself in the student protest perspectives of various young writers. We Are No Longer At Ease: The Struggle for #FeesMustFall (2018) is a collection of short essays, speeches...
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