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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the support of a wide range of individuals and institutions without whom this publication would not have been possible. However, the arguments, opinions and conclusions presented in the text belong solely to the authors.

We first acknowledge the contributions of those who took risks to talk to us and provide information. We also want to acknowledge the universities and their respective administrations that enabled the researchers to collaborate with each other to do this work, specifically the Universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, the Witwatersrand and Johannesburg. We want to acknowledge three institutions that collaborated to manage the funds and provide logistical and office support for the researchers: the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition at the University of Stellenbosch, the Public Affairs Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand and the Sustainability Institute. Finally, we want to acknowledge the Open Society Foundation for providing the funding required to conduct the research and publish the original report on which this book is based. They had faith in our capabilities to build a team and publish a report of our findings in a very short space of time.