Margie Orford, the noted crime novelist and award-winning journalist, has been elected President of PEN South Africa by the institution’s executive committee with effect from June 19. She succeeds Anthony (Tony) Fleischer, who was president for many years and died...
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Carole Bloch, Director of the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA), a multilingual education organisation affiliated to the University of Cape Town with a focus on transforming approaches to early biliteracy teaching and learning, developing...
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It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Anthony Fleischer. He was the President of South African PEN for many years and together with his wife, Dolores Fleischer, he championed literature and freedom of expression in South...
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How do Muslims fit into South Africa’s well-known narratives of colonialism, apartheid and post-apartheid? South Africa is notorious for apartheid, but this system of institutionalised racism was first shaped by 176 years of slavery and its brutality. Slaves from East...
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A young gay man bewildered and lost on the highways of Los Angeles; a sadomasochist Neo-Nazi in Berlin; a rent boy in Shanghai; a holiday romance in Mexico; a man from Dakar in a bathhouse in Paris; a love hotel...
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