ABSTRACT
The women were interviewed, up to four times each, by Mmantho Nkotsoe-also a black South African woman-who, as she says, was born in a ‘nearby village’. The conversations between Mmantho and the women were recorded as part of a larger oral history project (the Oral Documentation Project, or ODP) initiated at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1979. Some one thousand oral histories of black and some white South Africans, mainly from the countryside of the Transvaal, have been collected since the project began.
