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Peter Randall: a pioneering publisher who established the radical Ravan Press in South Africa

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par Beth le Roux, Associate Professor, Publishing, University of Pretoria

Peter Randall, a pioneering South African activist publisher and educator, passed away on 5 June 2024 in Johannesburg. He was the co-founder of Ravan Press, which published books critical of the racist apartheid state.

Randall was born in Durban in 1935. He was a gifted scholar but was at odds with the country’s political environment. From 1948 onwards, the white minority government passed a series of highly…

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