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- I would like to thank Catriona Macleod, John Reynolds and Sheona Shackleton of the University of the Witwatersrand Rural Facility and two anonymous readers for their useful comments on the article. Thanks are also due to Isak Niehaus of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand for his suggestions in the original formulation of this article.
- University of the Witwatersrand Rural Facility.