Many people have helped in various ways with Facts About Durban. The following is not a complete list and I beg pardon if I've left anyone out.

The First Edition - June 2003

Special thanks must go to Peter Bendheim and the eThekwini Muncipality Communications Department. Peter supported the project from the start providing encouragement and plenty of new leads to follow while the department's generous initial order for copies of Facts enabled its publication.

Thanks also must go to Sonia Coleman who lent me a number of books and shared both her memories and photographs. Others who helped greatly along the way include Sohana Singh, eThekwini Municipality, Kelvin Gould, City Engineer's Department, Coleen de Villiers, SA Weather Bureau, Jyothi Naidoo and Bashni Padayachee, National Ports Authority, Desere Strydom, S.A. Lighthouse Services, Grant McKenna, Local History Museum, Ockie Fourie, Mayor's Office, Dennis Claude and Helenore Labuschagne, KZN-NIA, and lastly, but by no means leastly, the ever-helpful librarians at the Killie Campbell Africana Library.

Thanks are also due to Denis Maher whose booklet of interesting facts and trivia about Dumfries in Scotland inspired me to give my hometown the same treatment.

The Second Edition - May 2004

I must repeat my thank-yous to Peter Bendheim and the eThekwini Municipality Communications Department, Sonia Coleman, and Denis Maher who originally inspired the Facts phenomenon. This time around I also need to thank Beric Jackson, Brenda Horner, Charmian Silcock, Claudia Ariatti, Italian Consulate Durban, David Ireland, Dean Wingrin, Doug Thompson, Eurika Deminey, George Askew, Gerald Buttigieg, Frank Beeton, Horace Dainty, Janet Nicholson, Jill Forrester, Joan Delgado, John Austin-Williams, Janine Andersen, Joan Harrison, Joan Lousada, John Buchan, John Mayor, Karen Lotter, Kathleen Hamilton, neè Hudson, Kevan Mardon, Lenn Mostert, who was then eThekwini Municipality Photogrammetry Section Manager, Leon Nicholson, Mark Horning, the eThekwini Mayor's Office, Merle Rowles, Mike Bootes, Mike Rochfort, Ossie Gorven, Paul Dubois, Peter Kelly, Peter Marsh, Reg & Doreen Monckton, Richard Rowland, Roz Sarkin, Terry Hutson, Tom Chalmers, of World Air News, Tony Day, Tony Large for his book and for delivering me, Tracy Paul, Vic Parsonage, and Wendy Scott.

Along The Way

Thanks to Ela Gandhi who took time out of her busy schedule to see me.

Since the Second Edition

Bill Bizley, Matt Powell, Reg Sweet, Philip Warhurst, Wade Kidwell, Zoe Brown, Garry Menzies, David Mitchell, Peter Sharples & Sonia Minney, Vivian Atwood, Rosemary Dixon-Smith, Nigel Hughes, Tony Thompson, Robert Davies & Hans Hallen.