Letter from Dorothy to Phyllis Naidoo.

Thank you for your letter and enclosures. I cried when i read it, the TRC stuff, but for you and your pain, your heart ache and your anger. I do keep you in my heart and pray for you. I am in a beautiful place, an old 150 years old house. With 37 people from about 20 different countries.

This paper is in essence the final chapter of a forthcoming book. It is preceded by a chapter more generally covering the post-colonial city in Africa. I take the view that the real historic break in urban development in Africa took place with the breakdown of modernist planning from the 1970s.