Jonathan Ball Publishers, the publisher of ActionSA leader HermanMashaba’s “unauthorised” biography, has pulled the book from the market. 📘📗📘 TheCitizenNews Here's why ⬇️
According to the report, researcher and analyst Brutus Malada was also involved in the project as a researcher, and was paid R3.2 million over the past three years.ActionSA said on Monday that although Mashaba financed the biography, financing a project “does not provide editorial control of content”.
“A contract was signed in March 2019 which provided explicit editorial control of content to the author, Mashele. Mashaba was to provide access for interviews and was availed with manuscripts from time to time to comment on factual accuracy.
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