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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many individuals and institutions contributed their time, energy and ideas towards the finalisation of this book. We thank especially the staff of the many archives we searched: particular thanks are owed to Vuyolwethu Feni-Fete, senior archivist at the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Fort Hare (Alice); Gabriele Mohale, head archivist at the William Cullen Library at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg); and Huibre Lombard and her dedicated staff at the Archive of Contemporary History at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein). Dr Abel Gwaindepi (Rhodes and Stellenbosch University) assisted with our archival work at the National Heritage Archives in Alice. Lee Smith and Robert Jacot-Guillarmod are acknowledged for their assistance in the editing of the volume.

Special thanks are due to those (all busy people) who allowed us to interview them. Their names and affiliations are recorded in the bibliography. This book would not have been possible without their contribution.

We also thank the following colleagues who provide us with leads and shared their ideas and reflections on the period of South Africa’s transition and who supported us in many ways as we worked towards completion of the manuscript. They include, in no particular order, Ronnie Kasrils, Saleem Badat, Bradley Bordiss, Bill Freund, Jannie Rossouw, Jonathan Leape, Tulo Makwati, Imraan Valodia, Lumkile Mondi, Keith Breckenridge, Deenan Pillay, Anand Pillay, Patsy Pillay, Jonathan Klaaren, Yusuf Sayed, Ben Turok, Shepi Mati, Greg Ruiters, Verne Harris and Keith Hart. Ben Fine and John Sender gave hugely of their time and their powerful memories of key aspects of the economics of the transition, in which they were both deeply involved. Apart from being interviewed by us, they always responded timeously and enthusiastically to our email queries and questions.

We are immensely indebted to Karen Pampallis and Sally Hines for their thorough editing work and for turning our scrabbled thoughts into elegant text. We are also grateful to our project manager, Alison Paulin, for her painstaking and meticulous efforts in finalising the book with us, carried out with good humour, patience and wonderful consideration for what we were trying to achieve.

We thank our respective families in Durban and Makhanda (Grahamstown). Vishnu Padayachee thanks Nishi, Sonali, Dhirren and his mother for being supportive and for allowing him the dedicated space and time to work uninterruptedly at his study in Durban. Vishnu would also like to acknowledge with deep gratitude four generations of the Padayachee and Naidoo families, whose powerful contribution and selfless service to the educational, cultural and economic life of Umkomaas left an indelible mark on his world view and values.

Robert van Niekerk thanks Orla, Nia and Oisin for their patience and support while he completed this book over four years of research and writing. Robert would also like to thank his comrades and friends in the Lansdowne Youth Movement and the Cape Youth Congress where his political understanding of the African National Congress as an historical movement of emancipation was first shaped. In particular he remembers Robbie Waterwitch, a cherished friend, and Coline Williams, who both died very unexpectedly but bravely as young MK guerrilla fighters in 1989. Their sacrifice is not forgotten.

For a lifetime of dedication and sacrifice to the struggle for democracy in South Africa and for his courage, integrity and vision, we are honoured to dedicate this book to Tata Andrew Mlangeni.

COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Permission to publish extracts and information taken from the following journal articles is gratefully acknowledged:

Vishnu Padayachee & John Sender. 2018. Vella Pillay: Revolutionary Activism and Economic Policy Analysis. Journal of Southern African Studies 44(1): 149-165. DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2018.1405644. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandfonline.com.

Vishnu Padayachee & Ben Fine. 2018. The role and influence of the IMF on economic policy in South Africa’s transition to democracy: The 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility revisited. Review of African Political Economy DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352 Reprinted by permission of Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, www.tandfonline.com.

Vishnu Padayachee (2015) Central Bank Independence: The debate revisited. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 89: 1–25. Reprinted by permission of the editor, Transformation.