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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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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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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