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- ↑ Paul B. Rich (1993). Hope and Despair: English-Speaking Intellectuals and South African Politics 1896-1976. British Academic Press.
- ↑ "Black Community Programmes (BCP)". South African History Online.
- ↑ Les Switzer, Mohamed Adhikari (2000). South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation Under Apartheid. Ohio University Press. p. 188.