PEN South Africa Vice President Raymond Louw has written an opinion piece for Business Day examining the constitutional protection of media. This follows on from the Western Cape government’s decision to instruct provincial departments to not renew their subscriptions to...
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Last week South African author Zainub Priya Dala was driven off the road by three men who held a knife to her throat, called her “Rushdie’s bitch” and hit her in the face with a brick, breaking her cheekbone. This...
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This is the first in a series of profiles on PEN SA’s members. Rachel Zadok is the author of two novels, Gem Squash Tokoloshe (Pan Macmillan, 2005) and Sister-Sister (Kwela Books, 2013). In 2005 she was a runner-up in the...
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London, 20 March 2015 The Zimbabwean government must do all in its power to clarify the fate of political activist and former journalist Itai Dzamara following his abduction on 9 March 2015, and bring the perpetrators to justice, PEN International...
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PEN South Africa is deeply concerned at the Western Cape government’s decision to instruct provincial departments to not renew their subscriptions to the Cape Times newspaper. Following Western Cape Premier and DA leader Helen Zille’s defense of the decision, PEN...
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