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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Centre for

International Forestry Research and Rhodes University Joint Research Council

for funding; Professor Roy Lubke and Matthew Gilbert for their assistance

with the ecological survey; Patrick Kralo and Nomtunzi Sizane for their help

in the field; and the communities of Pirie Mission and Cwengcwe for their

co-operation.

ENDNOTES

1. Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) Rhodes University,
   P.O. Box 94 Grahamstown 6140 South Africa. E-mail: [email protected]


2. Selmar Schonland Herbarium Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94 Grahamstown
   6140 South Africa. E-mail: [email protected]


3. Government pensions for the superannuated—men over 65, women over
   60—and the permanently disabled were introduced for rural populations,
   including those in the former homelands in the late 1960s (Palmer 1996) and
   constituted US$86 per month in 2001.

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