Sithembiso Khalishwayo came second in the PEN SA Student Writing Prize for his piece “The Forgotten“. Khalishwayo is an actor, dancer, teacher, writer, choreographer and facilitator who studied at the Wits School of Arts and Drama For Life majoring in...
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Koleka Putuma is the winner of the PEN SA Student Writing Prize for her piece “Water“. Putuma graduated with a BA in Theatre & Performance at the University of Cape Town. She has headlined at TEDx, SliPnet’s Inzync Poetry Sessions,...
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Puleng Lange-Stewart came third in the PEN SA Student Writing Prize for her piece “A love poem to the ‘Problematic’ Black Womxn”. Lange-Stewart is a young poet, performer, illustrator and playwright from Johannesburg. Matriculating at Sacred Heart College in 2010,...
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By Margie Orford, written for Issue 3 2016 of the newsletter to the PEN SA membership PEN South Africa has been watching the unfolding scene at our universities with rising alarm at the polarisation of debate around transformation and race...
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By PEN SA Board Member Mike van Graan, originally published on his blog, mikevangraan.wordpress.com on 2 March 2016 Read Part One here Read Part Three here Our social media and public discourse has become increasingly polarised and polarising; there is...
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