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Hilary Sapire is a professor of imperial and southern African history at Birkbeck College at the University of London, UK. She is the editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies and the co-author of African Apocalypse: The Story of Nontetha Nwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet.

Chris Saunders is an emeritus professor of historical studies at the University of Cape Town. He is author of numerous books, including The Making of the South African Past, and the co-author of the fifth edition of South Africa A Modern History. He has also contributed to The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 3, and The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 2.