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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We are grateful to the Open Society Foundation of South Africa, and the Women in Research Fund, awarded by the University of South Africa (UNISA), for providing the funding that made the research for this book possible.

This research was conducted under the auspices of the Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP). We are additionally grateful for the guidance and advice provided by fellow MPDP researchers, in particular the project leaders, Professor Jane Duncan (University of Johannesburg) and Professor Viola Milton (UNISA), who were extremely helpful in fundraising for this project.

Our thanks extend to Taryn Isaacs De Vega (Rhodes University) for assisting us with the media content analysis, which is reported on in this book, and to Dr Vanessa Malila (Rhodes University) who transcribed the in-depth interviews.

But most especially, our sincere thanks is extended to the courageous and determined activists and residents of Glebelands, Thembelihle and Xolobeni/Amadiba,¹ who warmly welcomed us into their communities, fully supported and actively participated in this project, and without whom this book would not have been possible.

This book is dedicated to them.