Ravan Press

{{Short description|South African anti-apartheid publishing company}}

Ravan Press, established in 1972 by Peter Ralph Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé, was a South African anti-apartheid publishing house.[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100405690 Ravan Press], in Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, The Oxford Companion to the Book, online ed., 2010.

Ravan Press was 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.

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.[https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/abpr.1988.14.issue-4/abpr.1988.14.4.231/abpr.1988.14.4.231.xml "A Profile of Ravan Press: 1984 Noma Award Winner"], The African Book Publishing Record, Vol. 14, Issue 4, January 1988, p. 231. Retrieved 7 September 2019.

In the 1990s Ravan Press was taken over by Pan MacMillan.Nerisha Baldevu, [http://khanyajournal.org.za/kc-journal-no-24-july-2010-progressive-publishing-the-ravan-press-experience/ Progressive publishing – the Ravan Press experience], Khanya Journal 24, July 2010.