ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Ian Liebenberg and Marlene Roefs, the authors of this monograph, wish to acknowledge the following people for their greatly appreciated inputs and valuable support to the study:

Dr Willem Schurink of the Social Science Consultancy (SSC) for training and monitoring of fieldworkers, the writing of the methodology and a thorough analysis/evaluation of fieldworkers reports;



Dr Rialize Ferreira of the Department of Sociology, University of South Africa for her research contribution on integration and demobilisation (rationalisation);



Paul Lundall and Reza Daniels of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town (UCT) for their contribution to the economic part of the report;



Julia Chauke for fieldwork co-ordination;



Hermien Bolton for assistance with fieldwork in companies and general administrative assistance;



Donsie Khumalo for facilitating several interviews in the East Rand, the North-West and Northern Province; and



the Service Corps of the SANDF for their competent and valued assistance with the facilitation of interviews in Gauteng, the North-West and Eastern Cape.

The bulk of the fieldwork was done — sometimes under less than ideal (if not adverse) conditions — by the following fieldworkers (‘foot soldiers’): William Dichaba, Cheryll Goodenough (KwaZulu-Natal), Leo Lombard, Mary-Anne Makgoka, Jackie Makgoka, Jonathan Mokgalaka, Lebogang Ntholeng, Tedwell Ngqolowa, Evald Tshukudu, Pindiwe Tsebe and Julia Chauke. If corporals are the backbone of armies, then an A-team of committed fieldworkers such as this is the backbone, neck and eyes of field research.

The team who captured the data included Alexander Vennekens-Poane, Zelda Klopper, Thembi Mnisi, Mary-Anne Makgoka and Tania Els. They did a wonderful job and are thanked for their accurate and fast operation.

Dr Garth Shelton, our colleague of the Wits Peace Studies Group, is thanked for his co-operation and support during the course of the research.

Furthermore, Ms Diane Abrahams and Dr (Col) Rocky Williams, both of the Security Sector Transformation Programme of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), are thanked for contracting AAC to conduct the study and for facilitating the research project.

The European Union is gratefully acknowledged for funding this exploratory study.

Those former combatants and SANDF soldiers on whose experience this study is based are acknowledged for their invaluable input, while being aware of the fact that their share of the outputs of this study is uncertain and probably minimal.