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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) represent an exceptional opportunity to study the evolution of X-ray binaries (XRB) under very different conditions to those in the Milky Way. The Clouds are close enough for the individual sources to be detected identified and studied whilst presenting diverse environments in terms of metallicity and tidal effects. In addition the population as a whole is possibly greater than the comparable Milky Way population so it provides an invaluable test-bed for accretion physics and binary evolution. This programme will carry out regular monitoring of the SMC to locate new transient pulsar systems and to continue exploring the ~100 known and suspected HMXB systems. [truncated! Please see actual data for full text]