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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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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Following our initial feature of UCT’s Youth Day voices, we reached out to the University of the Western Cape’s Sideen Faith Louw, Thandeka Khoza and Andisiwe Mzingelwa and asked for their views on among other things student protests, civil society...
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Following our initial feature of UCT’s Youth Day voices, we reached out to more students involved in recent student movements, Sideen Faith Louw (University of the Western Cape), Thandeka Khoza (University of Pretoria) and Andisiwe Mzingelwa. We asked questions focussed...
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