Among the many renowned authors they published were Mongane Wally Serote, Ivan Vladislavic, Alan Paton, Miriam Tlali, Pauline Smith and Mandla Langa.
[4] In 1992, Nadine Gordimer stated: “David and Marie Philip started an independent publishing firm in South Africa during some of the darkest days of censorship.
I am happy to be on their list.” [2] After his death in 2009, the former Sunday Times (South Africa) books editor Ben Williams wrote glowingly: "To call David Philip a publishing giant would be to do him an injustice.
The catalogue of South African books that he first breathed into life upon establishing his imprint in 1971 is a near-inexhaustible source of literary nourishment.
[1] This list also holds the popular Kwezi graphic-novel series, written and illustrated by Loyiso Mkize - South Africa's first superhero comic.