As South Africans prepare to participate in the relatively young constitutional democracy’s sixth general elections on the 8th of May 2019, there is much reason for gratitude and celebration. South Africa is a country in which freedom is constitutionally enshrined...
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On Thursday, 7 February 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his second State of the Nation Address (SONA), the 25th annual address by a South African head of state in the democratic dispensation. President Ramaphosa’s speech, which coincides with an election...
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Interview by Nick Mulgrew Jane Duncan is one of South Africa’s foremost experts on freedom of expression and its intersections with civil society and our everyday ways of life. A professor in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television at the...
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PEN South Africa notes with gladness that Cameroonian writer and Stony Brook college professor Patrice Nganang has been freed from detention in Cameroon. As Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN America wrote in a press release earlier this week: He was...
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PEN South Africa is gravely concerned by the abduction and detention on December 6th 2017 of Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian-American writer, poet, and professor. Nganang, a Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative literature at Stony Brook University in New York...
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