By Nick Mulgrew & Nokukhanya Mncwabe As promised in our official statement about the ongoing contestations about the role and place of artworks at UCT, as well as the UCT Works of Art Committee, PEN SA is providing a timeline...
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Sithembiso Khalishwayo came second in the PEN SA Student Writing Prize for his piece “The Forgotten“. Khalishwayo is an actor, dancer, teacher, writer, choreographer and facilitator who studied at the Wits School of Arts and Drama For Life majoring in...
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Koleka Putuma is the winner of the PEN SA Student Writing Prize for her piece “Water“. Putuma graduated with a BA in Theatre & Performance at the University of Cape Town. She has headlined at TEDx, SliPnet’s Inzync Poetry Sessions,...
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Puleng Lange-Stewart came third in the PEN SA Student Writing Prize for her piece “A love poem to the ‘Problematic’ Black Womxn”. Lange-Stewart is a young poet, performer, illustrator and playwright from Johannesburg. Matriculating at Sacred Heart College in 2010,...
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By PEN SA Board Member Mike van Graan, originally published on his blog, mikevangraan.wordpress.com on 4 March 2016 Read Part One here Read Part Two here Beyond “decolonization”: towards an emancipatory discourse and practice Our social media and public discourse...
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