A letter received by SA PEN from member Ronnie Kasrils Dear Fellow SA PEN members As a former government minister and as a writer I strongly deplore the reported police harassment and arrest of journalists in our country. We struggled...
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The Assembly of Delegates of International PEN meeting at its 76th Congress in Tokyo, Japan 25 September – 1 October 2010 Welcomes that freedom of expression is specifically protected in Clause 16 of South Africa’s 1996 Constitution, which guarantees the...
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PEN International, the only worldwide writers association, was established in 1921 with freedom of expression as one of the founding principles of the organization. Today there are over 140 PEN centres in more than 100 countries across the world. South...
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Henrietta Rose-Innes wins 2008 Caine Prize South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won the 2008 Caine Prize for African writing for her short story “Poison”. Henrietta won the 2007 HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award for “Poison” which was published in African...
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Anthony Fleischer, President SA PEN One of the evils of apartheid was “information classification” and the State’s efforts to control the flow of news and comment. I recall the Rand Daily Mail‘s resistance to such trends in apartheid days, and...
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