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In a fourth-wall break, a novel’s narrator says that if the home of a member of [emphasize] this profession “hasn’t been mentioned before, it’s because you have not asked, you didn’t care to know.” This job is taken up by a woman named Agaat in a Hertzog Prize-winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk (“NEE-kerk”). A man who had this job is accused of stealing a knife-grinder and a stork-shaped pair of scissors by a mother who mocks his “town woman” Ellen. Rachel’s dying wish that Salome, a member of this profession, receive the deed (10[1])to a home from the Swart family (10[1])is denied (10[3])in (-5[1])Damon Galgut’s novel The Promise. An image of a woman with this job named Lydia in a Life photobook moves (10[1])the matriarch of a (-5[1])family who must (10[1])forfeit the keys of their bakkie to a man with this job. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1]-5[1])a former member of what profession titles Nadine (10[1])Gordimer’s (10[2])novel July’s (-5[1])People? ■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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