Launching SA’s ‘active publishing’ model overseas – Publisher Jeremy Boraine

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Jonathan Ball Publishers have been publishing non-fiction titles in South Africa since the 1970s and they have been known to slaughter a couple of holy cows. One of their first well-known books was an exposé about the Broederbond, ‘The Super-Afrikaners’ by Sunday Times journalists. The Publishing Director responsible for publishing many other well-known authors including Redi Thlabi, Van Zyl Slabbert and Sisonke Msimang for JBP is Jeremy Boraine one of South Africa’s leading publishers. Boraine has been now been tasked to spearhead a new imprint for Icon Books in the United Kingdom, a post he will take up in April. Icon Books is an indie British company that JBP acquired in March 2020. Boraine told Linda van Tilburg about his plans to take the SA concept of ‘active publishing' overseas… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9 Mar 2022 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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