‘Madam, would you like a savage?’ A long week in Belgrade – I have been here for the annual congress of PEN, the international association of writers – has left me a left me slower than usual. Nevertheless I cast...
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PEN International is deeply concerned that South Africa’s Information Protection Bill still embraces too much “secrecy” despite changes Delegates at the annual congress of PEN International in Belgrade from 12-18 September 2011 expressed deep concern that while recent amendments to...
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In 1985, the crime writer Margie Orford was thrown in jail by South Africa’s apartheid police. Here she tells of the brutal experience that turned her from an idealistic student into a traumatised young woman Margie Orford The Observer, Sunday...
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Tim Noakes is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science behind sport and a successful sportsman in his own right. Through a lifetime of research, he has developed key scientific concepts in sport that have not only redefined...
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Blue Rivers is Douglas Reid Skinner’s fifth collection. The poems cover a wide range of subjects, from love, childhood and the death of parents to fellow writers, catastrophe and the nature of memory, illness, time, loneliness, language, thought and meaning....
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