Section 1. Media against apartheid : books, journals, magazines, newspapers. The politics of book publishing in South Africa : a critical overview / Phaswane Mpe & Monica Seeber -- Alternative publishing in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s / Dick Cloete -- Publishing for the people : the alternative press 1980-1999 / Guy Berger -- Section 2. Language, writing, identity, publishing. From colonialism to democracy : writers and publishing in South Africa / Andries Oliphant -- Publishing and perishing : books, people and reading in African languages in South Africa / Nhlanhla Maake -- Section 3. Considerations for the future. Academic publishing in South Africa / Eve Gray -- 'A textbook as cheap as a can of beer' : schoolbooks and public education in South Africa / Nicholas Evans -- 'We will publish what you deem to be great' : a dialogue about trade publishing and its readers in South Africa / Nicholas Combrinck & Maggie Davey -- Transform, support, stimulate : professional development in the book publishing industry 1990-2000 / Laura Czerniewicz and Monica Seeber -- How digital technologies are transforming book publishing / Steve Kromberg -- Protecting the publishing industry : reprographic reproduction rights administration as strategy and tool for national book publishing development / Monica Seeber