ABSTRACT
The police maintained a constant presence outside the Mafeking home once the second banning orders were issued, but at the end of the workday the Friday before they went into effect, the majority of police left for the weekend. As the working day ended and people got off work, a multi-racial crowd of community members began to grow in front of the Mafeking home, and they began to sing. Multiple communities worked together to provide for the Mafeking children in the days immediately following their mother’s departure, but Sophia remembered one person in particular from Huguenot as having offered everything she had in her time, efforts, and energy: Liz Abrahams. The government’s efforts to remove Mafeking from Paarl were far more disruptive than her presence, and the violence that ensued belied the notion of the so-called peace, order, and good administration her absence was supposed to ensure.
