Following up on the Media Institute of Southern Africa’s State of Media Freedom report, which we shared last week, PEN International has released its 2017 Case List, in which our colleagues have detailed threats to freedom of expression worldwide over...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Francine Simon, Christine Coates, Jim Pascual Agustin, Athol Williams, and Mark de Wet, whose poems have been longlisted for the 2018 Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award, and will be published in this year’s anthology. A...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Fred Khumalo, whose story “Talk of the Town” has been shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Twenty-four outstanding stories have been selected by an international judging panel from 5182 entries from 48 Commonwealth...
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Deadline: 15 June 2018 The Portfolio Committee on Communications is now inviting institutions or individuals to nominate people to fill three vacancies on the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). According to the Broadcasting Act, SABC board members...
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The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) recently released their 2017 State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa report, So This Is Democracy?. While South African journalists continue to do excellent investigative work, the report argues, among other things, that...
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