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Acknowledgements

Many people, too numerous to mention, over the period of thirty years during which we have been studying and writing on the region’s past, have afforded us invaluable insights and encouragement. We should like to single out Professor Sue Newton-King, formerly head of the Department of History at the University of Bophuthatswana (now North-West University, Mafikeng campus), who provided the start and enthusiasm required to embark on our respective paths as historians. We should also like to thank Jane Carruthers, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, at the University of South Africa, who took the time to read and comment on a much earlier draft of this book. Her remarks helped tremendously in the final outcome of this project. Any shortcomings are entirely ours. We should also like to thank Eugene Breytenbach, Deputy-Director, Directorate of Information and Management, Office of the Premier, North West Provinc e, and Liesl de Swardt, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, North-West University, Potchefstroom, for the production of maps. Our gratitude goes to Abe Madibo for photographs and to Paul Weinberg, Gille de Vlieg and Joe Alfers for the use of photographic material. And once again we are indebted to Elenore van der Riet of Hermanus for excellent translations of German scripts.

Terminology

We have chosen to employ the African prefixes when referring to the various communities about which we write. Thus we refer to the baHurutshe or baTswana in contrast to the academic norm which omits the prefix and retains only the stem: Hurutshe, Tswana. When used as an adjective the prefix ‘ba’ is omitted.