‘I just wanted to acknowledge that kids are dying’: author Molope says Writers’ Trust has a responsibility to support freedom of expression

Following her impromptu speech at the Politics and the Pen gala, Kagiso Lesego Molope was escorted from the Château Laurier hotel by security.
South African-Canadian author Kagiso Lesego Molope says the Writers' Trust, which runs the annual Politics and the Pen gala, should be more publicly supportive of outspoken, political expression.

Nearly two weeks after award-winning South African-Canadian author Kagiso Lesego Molope was escorted out of the Politics and the Pen gala following her unscheduled speech protesting the rising death toll and humanitarian cost of Israel’s war in Gaza, she says she isn’t w...

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