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A book as complex as this has required the assistance of many people. For translations, extracts, or comments, I wish to thank Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Sekepe Matjila, Chris Lowe, Grant Christison, Brian Willan, Jeff Opland, Pamela Maseko, Sarah Mkhonza, Sifiso Ndlovu, Betty Sibongile Dlamini, Heather Hughes, Paul Landau, Robert Trent Vinson, Chris Saunders, Dag Henrichsen, Diana Jeater, Mwelela Cele, Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière, Robert Edgar, Robert Hill, Jeff Peires, Ray Suttner, André Odendaal and John Lonsdale. The perceptive and helpful remarks of three anonymous reviewers added still further to the text. Always vital in digging out fragments of this lost newspaper was the help of archivists and librarians at: the National Archives of South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe; Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal; Wits Historical Papers (especially Michele Pickover); Pitts Theological Library at Emory University; Rhodes House, Oxford; and the School of Oriental and African Studies Libraries. Chris Lowe was a real sleuth on photographic identification. Some material from Robert Trent Vinson’s chapter appeared in The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012), and some sections of Peter Limb’s chapter 2 appeared in The ANC’s Early Years (Unisa Press, 2010), included with permission from those two presses.

The deeper origins of this book go back to scholarly communications between Les Switzer, Chris Lowe and myself at a time when the Internet was young, and to more recent urgings by Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière; and of course to the inspiration and stimulation over many decades of the national liberation struggle in South Africa.