Their importance to the current generation of southern Africans and our work in preparing them for future generations, is of such significance that SA Heritage decided to make them available to a wider audience even before the new orthography transcriptions and English translations are edited in preparation for final publication. So please excuse literals, interpretations and typing errors!

We hope to make the process semi interactive by inviting subscribers who wish to do so to participate in the process of “securing the future of our past” by checking that the handwritten manuscripts have been fully and accurately typed, participating in a project to find the descendants of the many authors whose writings we are working on and, in partnership with the National Lexicography Units, identify the lost meanings of several indigenous language words which have stumped our SATI approved translators.