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Peter Randall

Born
1935
Died
5 June 2024
Updated
8 Sep 2025
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Peter Randall

Summary

Banned Person, pioneering South African publisher, university lecturer, author, cofounder of the publishing house, Ravan Press

How we know this

  1. 01Beth le Roux, Associate Professor, University of Pretoria. (2024). Peter Randall: a pioneering publisher who established the radical Ravan Press in South Africa, from The Conversation, 27 June 2024 [online]. Available at https://theconversation.com/. Accessed on 8 September 2025 

Last updated · 8 Sep 2025

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2025, September 8). Peter Randall. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/B-0153052

South African History Online (2025) 'Peter Randall', South African History Online, 8 September. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/B-0153052 (Accessed: 22 July 2026).

South African History Online, Peter Randall [website], https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/B-0153052, (accessed 22 July 2026).

"Peter Randall." South African History Online, 8 Sept. 2025, https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/B-0153052. Accessed 22 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Peter Randall." South African History Online. September 8, 2025. https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/B-0153052.

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