By Nick Mulgrew PEN South Africa[1] – together with colleagues from PEN International[2], PEN Nigeria[3], PEN Uganda[4], the Press Council of South Africa[5] and attorney Simon Delaney – recently attended the Sitting of the Permanent Committees of the Pan-African Parliament...
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Dr Stella Nyanzi, prominent Ugandan academic, feminist and LGBTI+ campaigner, was arrested for speaking her mind. In April last year, she was detained by Ugandan authorities for a post on Facebook that called Yoweri Museveni – the President of Uganda...
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PEN SA notes with concern the re-classification by the Film and Publication Board of the film Inxeba – The Wound from 16LS, to X18, which serves to essentially outlaw the distribution and showing of the film in most public places,...
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World Read Aloud Day takes place on 1 February every year. For 2018’s edition, literacy advocates Nal’ibali have commissioned PEN SA member Zukiswa Wanner to write a story to be translated into all official South African languages and read aloud...
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For the last four years PEN South Africa has partnered with the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA), the organisation which initiated and drove the first four years of the Nal’ibali national reading-for-enjoyment campaign. Together,...
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