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COLUMN: Small town trouble

COLUMN: Small town trouble
Illustration: Nicolene Louw
Illustration: Nicolene Louw

Late one night, the rugby posts at Vredendal High School uprooted themselves and moved nearly half a kilometre. Evan Naudé explains the reason behind this mysterious phenomenon.

One morning, near the end of my first year in high school, I was surprised by what I found at school: toilet paper hung from trees, posters pasted on doors and graffiti on the windows.

When the matrics arrived, things got even more strange: The boys wore dresses and ribbons in their hair, and the girls wore grey school shorts and boys’ socks pulled up to their knees.

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