Writers have responsibilities

Like most writers I know, dodging work is a big part of my day. I walk the dogs. I work in the garden. I play on Facebook, I stalk folks on Twitter…mostly Mark Ruffalo and Margaret Atwood.

Occasionally, though, productive things come out of social media, productive things such as ideas for columns. Most of my friends on Facebook are writers, so we often talk about writerly things.

The other day a friend put up a newspaper article from South Africa where a writer was complaining about a publisher there who had ‘cheated’ them.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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