It is with grave concern that PEN South Africa notes the deportation from Zimbabwe of two South African journalists earlier this week. The deportation of e.tv journalists, Aldrin Sampear and Linge Ndabambi, comes in the wake of the Zimbabwean government’s...
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On this, the eve of the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2018, PEN South Africa is issuing a statement condemning in the strongest terms the recent re-arrest of prominent Ugandan academic, feminist and LGBTI+ campaigner, Dr. Stella Nyanzi, as well as...
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PEN SA welcomes the news last week that the Competition Commission “has initiated an investigation against the Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and its over 91 members for allegedly fixing the prices of books”. PASA is the largest publishing...
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On occasion, the PEN SA Board is asked to weigh in on issues it deems too complex and nuanced to distill into an unequivocal statement. Various PEN SA members have, on a number of occasions, asked the PEN SA Board...
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The Board of PEN SA is gravely concerned at reports of a raid by the Hawks yesterday afternoon on the home of journalist Jacques Pauw, author of The President’s Keepers. The Hawks obtained a search and seizure warrant from the...
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