The university attended also by Gertrude Fester and Rozena Maart, and where Di Bishop now works.

When the state of emergency was imposed on 20 July 1985, it excluded certain areas like Cape Town. Presumably, this is why Hettie V. mentions October rather than July as the month it began.

The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, meaning Afrikaner Resistance Movement in English, a white supremacist group founded in 1972 whose members wear swastika -like emblems, are sometimes armed, and have been known to have tarred and feathered a professor whose views they disliked (Omond 1985).

Other major figures in Sethembile N.'s story have also been given pseudonyms for security reasons, at her request.

This way of naming the woman is intended to remind the reader that her real identity is not being revealed.

District Six was a black community in Cape Town that was totally destroyed because of its proximity to white residents.

This university has since become such a progressive, anti-apartheid institution that the ANC does not include it in its academic boycott because they consider it to be »part of the struggle.«

Crossroads, situated on the outskirts of Cape Town, is the best-known squatter area in South Africa, famous for the people's resistance to the government's repeated and brutal efforts to forcibly remove them.

This is an Afrikaans University, attended by very few English-speaking South Africans like Bishop

Listing is another form of political restriction, less severe than banning but equally arbitrary, that usually involves curtailment of the listed person's freedom of movement, speech, and assembly.