Storytellers who bring these matters into the foreground typically employ a blame-the-victim approach, even while they insist they are using anti-Apartheid reference material in developing their expertise. For example, Lesley Beake claims her reliance on studies in Growing Up in a Divided Society: The Context of Childhood in South Africa (1986).1 In developing her novel The Strollers (1987), Beake maintains that she was "generously allowed" to use materials later published in Growing Up in a Divided Society, but the fact remains that Beake's ideas about street squatters amd scavengers are quite alien to the ideas assembled in that anthology. Sandra Burman (the anthology's co-editor) (1986) writes that "phenomena of repression ... have their instruments and their logic at the effective level of the family, of the immediate environment, of the most basic units of society" (7). This, she says, is the framework for gaining an understanding of "domination in South Africa." The Strollers contradicts this framework and substitutes the author's own explanation: the supposed pathology of Black people.