Fahrenheit 451 in the era of 36 °C

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Notes

¹ Hope, Café de Move-on, 295.

² Professor Danie Visser, UCT Deputy Vice-Chancellor (2009–2016): personal

communication, Stellenbosch, 17 August 2021.

³ See Van der Walt, Stilspraak, 133, 132–33.

⁴ Francis Wilson. It was an airing of research that would appear four years later, in his Labour in the South African Gold Mines.

⁵ Wilks, “Alice in Colourland,” 18. I am grateful to Sue Ogterop, former librarian of the African Studies Library, for having gone to the trouble of fishing out this source, unasked.

⁶ Nasson, History Matters, 268.

⁷ Again, I have Sue Ogterop to thank for this post-fire news.

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Bill Nasson

Bill Nasson is Emeritus Professor in History at Stellenbosch University and a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study. He is co-editor (with Hermann Giliomee and Bernard Mbenga) of the new edition of New History of South Africa (forthcoming, 2022).