It is with a sense of shock and outrage that the board of PEN SA decries the bombing of the Al-Jawhara tower and the Al-Shorouk office buildings in Gaza City by Israeli forces on May 11th and May 12 2021....
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In the fifth and final episode of this season of The Empty Chair, PEN SA board member Sisonke Msimang interviews celebrated author and journalist Zubeida Jaffer. Zubeida talks about her books, writing in difficult and joyous circumstances, her certainty during...
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On 27 April 2021, PEN South Africa in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC), the Sylt Foundation and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P) presented “Voices of Belonging and Resistance”, focusing on the current...
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On 18 May 2021, PEN South Africa in partnership with Africa is a Country (AIAC) presented “Writing as a Cultural Weapon” or “Writing as a Life” (the latter title proposed by the participating Palestine writers). South African and Palestinian writers...
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It was with enormous sorrow that the board of PEN South Africa learned of the passing of South African activist, playwright and author, Ronnie Govender on the 29th April 2021. Throughout the Apartheid era, Ronnie Govender campaigned tirelessly for racial...
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