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 (10[1])deed to a home from the Swart (10[1])family is (10[3])denied (-5[1])in Damon Galgut’s novel The Promise. An image of a woman with this job named Lydia in a Life photobook (10[1])moves the matriarch of (-5[1])a family who (10[1])must forfeit the keys of their bakkie to a man with this (10[2])job. For (10[1])10 (10[1]-5[1])points, a former member of what profession titles (10[1])Nadine (10[2])Gordimer’s novel (-5[1])July’s People? (10[3]0[5])■END■