Free the Word! at the Orbit Thursday 4th December 2014 7.30pm – 8.30pm Orbit Jazz Club, 81 De Korte Street, Johannesburg, Gauteng Mandla Langa, Beatrice Lamwaka, Makhosazana Xaba and Masande Ntshanga in conversation with Michele Magwood. PEN International, South African...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, A few weeks ago, two hundred and fifty writers from almost 80 PEN Centres came together in Bishkek. Nothing like this has been tried before. And it probably would not have been possible elsewhere in...
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PEN South Africa, part of an international organisation which represents writers, editors and translators, and whose members have pledged themselves to oppose any form of suppression of freedom of expression or censorship but to uphold freedom of the press, is...
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The 15th of November marks PEN International’s 33rd anniversary of the annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer, an international day that recognises writers who have suffered persecution as a result of exercising their right to freedom of expression. “November 15...
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If the government plan of one textbook per subject goes ahead, among other things, the difficult work to create and inspire the reading of children’s literature in African languages and English will be significantly harmed. The sale of textbooks into...
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