Like Family, by Ena Jansen (used)

A scholarly study examining the fraught, intimate position of South Africa's domestic workers — historically over a million Black women employed as nannies, housekeepers and "chars" — within white households, tracing how patterns established under Cape slavery still shape these relationships today. Ena Jansen analyzes how domestic workers have been represented across English and Afrikaans literature, drawing on writers including J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Sindiwe Magona to unpack the power dynamics and contradictions of employer-employee "family" bonds.