Schweizer-Reneke: A town where segregation rules
(World News South Africa)

The road trip from Joburg to Schweizer-Reneke is long and arduous. The destination offers nothing by way of rewards, or excitement. One could fare better by driving into town hoping to watch paint dry. The weekday´s sweltering heat made the boredom a tad more overwhelming. The farmers in short pants and heavy woollen socks just below the knee made fetching their children from Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke a spectacle of pomp and ceremony. Who could blame them? Theirs is a depressing town where there is little to do outside ploughing their fields and putting the black man in his place. Being battered - often with fatal results - is the perennial black man´s burden in Schweizer-Reneke. The local...