"Existing in Secret Places: women's testimony in the first five weeks of Public Hearings of the Truth and reconciliation Commission (TRC)" is the title of a paper delivered by Fiona Ross at the conference "Fault Lines. re: membering, re: collecting, re:constructing: A Rejoinder", which was held on 4-5 July 1996 in Cape Town. Ross's paper deals with the broader issue of "Gender and the TRC."