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By Diana E. H. Russell

The motive during this booklet is to rip away the veil of secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa via featuring 5 in-depth own debts of this heinous type of sexual exploitation as advised via the survivors. every one of those debts contains an research of significant incest-related matters raised via the survivor's tale. one other target is to discover the connections among the usually merciless sexual exploitation of women by way of their white male family and the brutal exploitation of black humans via white males in South Africa.

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ELSA'S STORY Family Background You never asked Hoffie questions and you never challenged him. You just said, 'Ja, Pa' [Yes, Father]. If you asked him why, you got a double hiding. What he said was law and you accepted it. With God you have an option, with Hoffie you didn't. Hoffie was a rich man, but he never gave a cent to mum. He forced her to earn the money to feed us because we were her kids. He didn't believe in using a bank so he had money all over the house. He used to have notes rolled into those big panado [aspirin] bottles which we used to steal.

Although their mother is an English-speaking South African, Elsa described her family as Afrikaans, but bilingual. They spoke Afrikaans at home until the family moved to Cape Town when Elsa was 14 years old, switching to English when they moved in with Elsa's maternal grandmother because she, like Elsa's mother, was an English-speaking South African. However, Mrs Malan still speaks Afrikaans with her husband Abraham. Elsa and Marie's accounts of their experiences of incestuous abuse and battering provide an unusual opportunity to try to understand why two sisters, only one year apart in age and raised in the same home, reacted to being raped by the same stepfather in such dramatically different ways Elsa with rage, bellicosity and a remarkable degree of recovery, and Marie with compliance, despair and self-destruction.

With the blood still on my clothes, I ran for two or three kilometres [about a mile] to the home of two old friends of mine - Katerina and Marius - and I told them what had happened. Katerina slapped my face to try to calm me down. Then she called a doctor who gave me an injection to control me. She threw away my clothes because they were badly torn and lent me some of hers. I stayed with them for four days before my mother came to get me. I didn't want to go home, but she insisted. My father had to go to a doctor for stitches.

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