This project has been made possible by a research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain, whose assistance is gratefully ackowledged.

Robert Godlonton was an early newspaperman in the Eastern Cape who, together with Thomas Pringle, agitated for press freedom during an era when government was still by decree by the colonial governor. His bust stands in the Albany museum, in a room being progressively gutted of settler memorabilia, to be displaced by celebrations of Xhosa resistance.