The international meeting of the PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC) was held in Barcelona from 21st – 23rd April 2015. Adré Marshall, PEN South Africa’s representative on the Committee, attended the meeting and presented an article. You...
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A proposed policy to regulate online content in South Africa is poised to return the country to a worrisome state of severely curtailed free expression. The Draft Online Regulation Policy proposed by the Film and Publication Board (FPB) of South...
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Pictured above: Petina Gappah, Anthony and Dolores Fleischer and Karabo Kgoleng at the 2009 PEN/Studzinksi Literary Award ceremony, Franschhoek. Longtime PEN SA committee members Dolores Fleischer and Tim Anderson recently announced their decisions to step down from the board, after...
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PEN South Africa condemns the xenophobic attacks on Africans and various communities. The epicentre of these attacks in KwaZulu-Natal are an indictment on all South Africans and point to the bankruptcy of leadership that fanned the flames through intemperate utterances....
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Thursday April 16 This World Book Day, 23 April 2015, the Nal’ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaign is launching a special children’s literacy rights poster to assert and affirm for children what they need to become inspired and competent readers and writers. Endorsed...
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