PEN SA will present a special event at Kalk Bay Books to celebrate Unesco’s International Mother Language Day on Friday, 21 February. International Mother Language Day is celebrated annually worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism....
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Dear Colleagues, As part of the social media aspect of PEN’s Sochi Olympics campaign- Out in the Cold – we are planning an online Thunderclap action to highlight recently-passed draconian legislation that has the potential to strangle free expression in...
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Edwin Cameron’s gripping and revealing new book is part memoir and part ode to the law. The book opens at the funeral of Cameron’s sister Laura when he was just seven. His father was accompanied by prison officials, having been...
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PEN South Africa urges Police Commissioner to respond urgently to calls by editors for investigations into fatal shooting of photographer and alleged assault of another journalist both by police officers PEN South Africa condemns the fatal shooting of a 64-year-old...
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South African scriptwriter Paul Waterson is in Kenya to research a documentary film. It’s October 2001, and his relationship has come to an unexpected end. Searching for solace in Mombasa, Malindi and Lamu, he becomes obsessed with finding the last...
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