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Notes

¹ Jansen, As By Fire: The End of the South African University (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2017) pp, xii-xv (quotation on pp. xii-xiii.)

² For three recent books on the Soweto Uprisings see: Julian Brown, The Road to Soweto: Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu’s updated version of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-Memories of June 1976, and Nieftagodien’s own The Soweto Uprising in the “Ohio Short Histories of Africa” series.

³ Jacana Media reissued Suttner’s Inside Apartheid’s Prison in a new edition in May 2017 (it will be available in the USA in January 2018).

⁴ Richard Pithouse, Writing the Decline: On the Struggle for South Africa's Democracy (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2016) p. 4.

⁵ Dicey is also the author of the well-regarded travelogue of a 1400-kilometer canoe trip along the Orange River, Borderline (Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2004).

⁶ The production table is inconsistent. Some of the books are published nearly simultaneously. In other cases, there is a considerable lag. For example, Jacana published Bill Nasson’s South Africa at War 1939–1945, but Ohio has not yet published its edition. On the other hand, in 2017, Ohio published Paul Bjerk’s Julius Nyerere, which Jacana has not yet issued.

⁷ Equal Education’s website is https://equaleducation.org.za.

⁸ Though it should be pointed out that Janet Cherry contributed a useful volume on the MK to the Ohio Short Histories/Jacana Pocket Histories – Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto We Sizwe: South Africa’s Liberation Armies, 1960s-1990s (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012/Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2011).