PEN South Africa is very proud to announce that its Vice President Raymond Louw has received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand. “We are so pleased to see our vice president honoured in this way....
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PEN South Africa Vice President Raymond Louw has written an opinion piece for Business Day examining the constitutional protection of media. This follows on from the Western Cape government’s decision to instruct provincial departments to not renew their subscriptions to...
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South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has refused to sign into law the contested Protection of State Information Bill, an official secrets class of legislation which was dubbed the “Secrecy Bill’’ and which was vigorously opposed by the media and civil...
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Peter Godwin, the Zimbabwean-born new President of American PEN, paid a fleeting visit to South Africa for a day or so in March and was entertained at dinner by a few Johannesburg members at the Johannesburg Country Club. SA PEN...
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The late U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl and South African editor Raymond Louw were today named World Press Freedom Heroes by the International Press Institute. The Vienna-based press freedom organization will formally present the awards during a special ceremony at its...
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