The obituary of Can Themba by Lewis Nkosi is reproduced by kind permission of the author and Rajat Neogy, editor of Transition (it appeared in No. 34). Ezekiel Mphahlele for ‘The Urchin’ (Penguin Books Ltd); Ellis Ayiteh Komey and Ezekiel Mphahlele for ‘The Dube Train’ (Faber & Faber Ltd); the proprietors of The Critic for ‘The Urchin’, ‘The Suit’ and ‘The Boy with the Tennis Racket’; the proprietor of Drum for ‘Terror in the Trains’, ‘Boozers Beware of Barberton!’, ‘Brothers in Christ’, ‘Nude Pass Parade’, ‘Let the People Drink’, ‘Political Offenders Banned to the Bush’, and ‘Henry Nxumalo’; and the proprietors of Africa South for ‘Requiem for Sophiatown’ and ‘The Bottom of the Bottle’.