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Thirty-six-year-old Elsabé Groenewald (her real name) is an Afrikaner who lived with her Afrikaner husband, Louis, and their two daughters, 12-year-old Marlése and 7-year-old Monique, at the time of the interview in 1993. Elsabé and Louis owned a home in Goodwood — a predominantly Afrikaans suburb of Cape Town.
‘Because I’m his daughter, my father seems to think that what he did to me was fine — that this gave him the right to do whatever he wanted.’
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Russell, D.E.H., Campling, J. (1997). The Divine Right of the Father: Elsabé Groenewald’s Story. In: Behind Closed Doors in White South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389243_6
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