We present ‘My Country, Tonight’ a radio broadcast of responses from writers and artists to the 30 June deadline set by xenophobic groups for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa.
We invited friends and comrades, poets and writers, South Africans, to sit with us on 30th June 2026 and share their thoughts, read from a piece, that speaks their feelings towards the deadline put forward by the March & March movement. The proceedings will be moderated by historian and writer Bongani Koni, and broadcasted live on the Pan African Space Station from 7pm.
Speakers will include; Gabeba Baderoon, Milisuthando Bongela, Audrey Brown, Jacques Coetzee, Nolan Dennis, Nadia Davids, C.A. Davids, Alexandra Dodd, Ingrid de Kok, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Asher Gamedze, Thandi Gamedze, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Tania Haberland, Stacy Hardy, Rangoato Hlasane, Ali Hlongwane, Kemang wa Lehulere, Hlengiwe Lushaba, Bongani Madondo, Percy Mabandu, Mandla Mlangeni, Ingrid Masondo, Athambile Masola, Shepi Mati, Nombuso Mathibela, Kwena Mokoena, Masello Motana, Siya Mthembu, Lethokuhle Msimang, Sisonke Msimang, Nhlanhla Ngqaqu, Sandile Ngidi, Julie Nxadi, Yewande Omotoso, Shailja Patel, Uhuru Phalafala, Edgar Pieterse, Thania Pietersen, Jolyn Phillips, Karen Press, Kelwyn Sole, Ari Sitas, Ivan Vladislavic, Zukiswa Wanner, Ilze Wolff, Breeze Yoko, and others.
When: 30 June 2026
Where: LIVE on PASS
