The current lack of reading culture has not helped the country’s publishing industry, which was put under further pressure when the recession hit.
Shaun de Waal recalls how the <i>M&G</i> took a stand against the state’s intention to muzzle the media 25 years ago.
An artist’s book that went missing in 1988 was recently rediscovered in the basement of a book binder in Johannesburg and will be launched next week.
Jacana Media publishes 55 to 60 books a year but such a large output for a local publisher is an unintentional by-product of its love for new writers.
The Boekehuis, voted one of 50 unique bookshops in the world in 2006, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
The development of the Amazon Kindle — now in its third generation — has sparked the digital publishing world.
Writers based throughout Africa submitted about 250 manuscripts in the fiction category and 50 in the non-fiction category.
<b>Leon de Kock</b> walks the line between the real and the "real" in South African writing.