The winners of the 2016 Short Sharp Stories Awards have been announced. Congratulations to PEN SA members Kobus Moolman, Fred Khumalo, Anton Krueger, Diane Awerbuck and Stephen Symons, who were listed as winners in the following categories: Runners-up: “Angel Heart”...
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Imagnary House, a new publishing house for children’s literature, is encouraging submissions from all African writers: Press release from Imagnary House: We’re a new boutique publishing house for children’s literature in Cape Town, South Africa. Our Mission We’re focused on...
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White Horse covers the three days of unprecedented testimony in the Oscar Pistorius sentencing phase, witnessed first-hand by Nick van der Leek, who was accredited for the trial. Besides ground-breaking analysis and insights not only beyond the media narrative, but...
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“For a couple of months in the near perfect summer of 1990/1991, Jacob Zuma came to stay in my house in Norwood, Johannesburg… Twenty five years later, my former house guest has all but morally bankrupted Nelson Mandela’s ruling African...
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Statement from PEN International: 08 July 2016 Update #1 to RAN 07/16 PEN International welcomes the decision by the Angolan Supreme Court on 29 June 2016 to conditionally release writer Domingos da Cruz and 16 activists jailed alongside him in...
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