Word: woodses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As one of Woods'fellow journalists has put it, isolation is a CUrSe-and banning is the most insidious punishment in South Africa. Reserved for an elite 150 or so of the government's political enemies, it amounts to an emotionally destructive public Coventry. For five years, Woods...
It is only the first week of all the weeks to come for the next five years; the nine pages outlining the conditions of Woods' banning until October 1982 still sit on his study desk beside his children's report cards. The beginnings, at least, are outwardly pleasant...
...like an unexpected family vacation. Eventually there will be finan cial problems. The Daily Dis patch will continue to pay his salary as editor, but he will lose the income from a nationally syndicated column that helped syndicated column that helped pay the school bills for five children. The Woodses will still enjoy the trappings of upper-middle-class life: a big, sunny home with leaded, stained-glass windows, spacious rooms with smoothly rubbed, yellow wood Cape Dutch antiques, a swimming pool, two cars...
Woods now has time, lots of time. He is forbidden to write at all, even in a private diary. The government is watching-as part of the ban, the Woodses have been informed that their home, their phones, even their two cars are bugged. Plainclothesmen keep their house under surveillance. Woods gets up after 8:30 a.m., an hour later than in his newspaper days. A gifted amateur pianist, he practices, for an hour, Chopin's B-minor Sonata-which, his wife says, should take him a month to master. "It's a virtuoso piece," says Wife Wendy...
The family's life is governed by arbitrary and seemingly illogical rulings on what they can and cannot do. Woods, for example, can visit East London's airport but not the harbor.