Stephen Johnson on Random House Struik
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Stephen Johnson is Managing Director of the\\xa0South African publishing firm Random House Struik. We talk here about the merger, the independence of SABC\\xa0(the state owned South African Broadcasting Corporation), Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, Random House Struik\\u2019s political power, Apartheid\\u2019s banning of Anna Sewell\\u2019s Black Beauty, the current government\\u2019s under-funding of libraries, political corruption and the loss of early promise, Apartheid by other means, freedom, story-telling and other explanations for South Africa\\u2019s flourishing publishing sector, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Jacob Zuma\\u2019s shower-head, and plans Johnson has for the future of his company.
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