Ravan Press
Ravan Press, established in 1972 by Peter Ralph Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé, was a South African anti-apartheid publishing house. Initially established to print the reports of the South African Study Project of Christianity in Apartheid Society (Spro-Cas). In 1974 it became a donor-funded oppositional publishing house, specializing in anti-apartheid literature.
Ravan Press
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- Ravan Press was established or created on 1 January 1972.
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- Ravan Press is situated in South Africa.
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Ravan Press, established in 1972 by Peter Ralph Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé, was a South African anti-apartheid publishing house. Initially established to print the reports of the South African Study Project of Christianity in Apartheid Society (Spro-Cas). In 1974 it became a donor-funded oppositional publishing house, specializing in anti-apartheid literature.
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Ravan Press established.
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Ravan Press was established or created on 1 January 1972.
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Ravan Press is situated in South Africa.
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In 1984, following its release of Njabulo Ndebele's novel Fools and Other Stories (Staffrider Series, No. 19), Ravan Press won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. In the 1990s Ravan Press was taken over by Pan MacMillan.
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Ravan Press was established or created on 1 January 1972. Recorded as publishing house. Situated in South Africa.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 124990-3, Ravan Press.
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