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Author’s note

This book makes frequent use of racial categories such as ‘black’, ‘white’ and ‘coloured’. The use of inverted commas denotes the constructed nature of these terms and is meant to provide some distance from the offensive implications. In order to make it easier for the reader, however, the inverted commas have been done away with, but the labels should still be treated carefully. Racial categories have also been uncapitalised to indicate the many variations of each race, and to privilege none of them. Certain other historical terms such as ‘native’, ‘armblankevraagstuk’ or ‘poor white problem’ have been placed in inverted commas once a chapter, after which the punctuation is removed to ease reading. These terms are (very often unfortunate) products of their time. The punctuation again indicates distance and, even unpunctuated, the terms should still be read as such.

Unless otherwise noted, all translations from Afrikaans are mine.