Parfitt’s investigations were actually initiated in the 1980s ... and in 1992 he published his 'Journey to the vanished city'. The first genetic studies of the Lemba were then carried out in 1996. However, you are right that a 1997 writer can be forgiven for not being aware of the full extent of Parfitt’s discoveries.

Nevertheless, I am quite baffled as to why, under the circumstances, you consider it desirable to quote Ruwitah’s opinions here – particularly when they have now been contradicted by DNA evidence. Far more relevant and illuminating are the Lembas’ Semitic clan-names cited by van Warmelo in 1937. It therefore seems quite justifiable to insert a very brief mention of these – which I have done.