The term comrade is used by many people in the anti-apartheid movement and does not necessarily indicate that they subscribe to a communist ideology.

Large numbers of detainees finally won their release after a very successful hunger strike in 1989 (Audrey Coleman, personal communication, 6 June 1989).

I didn't even try to interview the last two women listed in Gastrow (1985)—Frances Baard and Helen Suzman. A short interview-based book had just been published about seventy-eight-year-old Frances Baard (Schreiner, 1986), and I decided not to try to duplicate this effort.

Where there was a disagreement in placement of townships, I gave priority to the locations indicated in the published sources.

It also testifies to their awareness of the prevalence of phone tapping and its constraints.

The Weekly Mail — an excellent publication, which still manages to publish astonishingly revealing information about what is going on in South Africa despite the heavy censorship laws—attributes the figure of these thirty thousand to »independent estimates«, while pointing out that »the government's figure for those held for 30 days or longer under the emergency regulations since June 12, 1986 ... is 17, 723«.

For example, see the selected bibliography on South African women at the end of this book.

Aside from a brief mention of Winnie Mandela and Mamphela Ramphele (a medical doctor and colleague of the late Steve Biko), women do not figure in this otherwise excellent book. Lelyveld devotes one chapter to a portrayal of five South Africans who exemplify moral courage to him, and not one of whom is a woman. In his thirty-six-item selected bibliography, not only is there no book about a woman or women, there is no book written by a woman. This kind of male bias is so prevalent in our culture that few readers seem to notice it.

Six other white men were banned—but not house-arrested—at that time.

Because prefacing the word Coloured with so-called is cumbersome and awkward, I will not follow that usage here. Like the term white, black and Coloured are not typically capitalized by progressive South Africans; but Coloured uncapitalized looks odd when the terms Indian, Asian, African, English-speaking South African, and Afrikaner are all capitalized. In addition, some U.S. readers would interpret the uncapitalized usage as disrespectful, particularly since the term colored has negative connotations in this culture.