PEN SA Africa Pulse is a weekly round-up of news concerning cases of freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Africa. Flemming Rose says Freedom of Speech should be protected Flemming Rose, a senior fellow at the...
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Photograph: Ruth First in Jack Gold’s film on her imprisonment. Courtesy of Wits Journalism and the Ruth First Papers Projects. The 2016 Ruth First Lecture was held on Wednesday 17 August at the University of the Witwatersrand. This year’s keynote...
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Deadline: 20 February 2016 The Department of Journalism at Wits University, together with PEN South Africa, is embarking on a series of events in 2016 to encourage public discourse on freedom of expression in South Africa and to examine the...
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PEN South Africa is a partner of this year’s Carlos Cardoso Memorial Lecture Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Tawana Kupe and Wits Journalism invite you to the fourth annual Carlos Cardoso Memorial Lecture to be delivered by Bheki Makhubu of The Nation,...
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The following speech was given by PEN South Africa Vice President Raymond Louw on 30 June 2015 at a ceremony at the University of the Witwatersrand where he was bestowed with an honorary Doctorate of Literature for his “unstinting service...
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