Salisbury.
I also owe a warm word of thanks to Mrs. Sheila Loseby and the staff of
the Library of the Anglo American Corporation.
There are, however, obhgations of a more special kind to which reference must be made.
From
the beginning it was recognized that it would be of great advantage if
I could draw on the advice of an expert on African economic affairs,
and the choice inevitably fell on Professor S. H. Frankel, now of
Oxford University and formerly of the University of the Witwatersrand,
whose active membership of various committees and commissions and whose
books on African economic life entitle him to a very special position.
Herbert Frankel and I have known each other intimately for many years
and it has been a great pleasure to me, as well as a great advantage,
to have been able to enlist his continuous interest in the present
book, and to receive his detailed comments, both as regards content and
presentation. Mr. P. H. A. Brownrigg, formerly of the London office and
now resident director of Anglo American Corporation in Rhodesia, has
also read the successive drafts of the book and made valuable
suggestions: I hereby extend thanks.
Throughout
the period that material for this book was being collected—and I have
already indicated that it was a task of considerable magnitude—I have
benefited from the services of enthusiastic and hard-working research
assistants. For a time in London I was helped by Mrs. N. G. L. Wilhams.
In Johannesburg my first assistant was Miss C. Kearns (now Mrs. C.
Dimitriou). She worked for a time with Mr. W. J. Hefer, now an
assistant manager of Anglo American Corporation in Johannesburg. He
was followed by Mr. G. V. Doxey, now associate professor of economics,
York University, Toronto, and lately a senior lecturer at the
University of the Witwatersrand. In Cape Town, Miss H. Spyrou (now Mrs.
T. Brice) helped in research among the files of old South African
newspapers. The thanks which I extend are very far from being a formal
matter. In effect, a by-product of the research involved has been the
accumulation of rich archival material, which I believe to be in some
degree unique, and it is largely through the efforts of the above-named
that this was made possible.
My
sincere thanks go to my secretary: throughout the whole period of time
involved, Mrs. Shirley Welch has had to cope with the job of typing and
re-typing not only the successive drafts of the book, but also of
dealing with the typing of much of the research material as it
accumulated. I am very grateful, especially as my handwriting
