Run for your life
Pine Pienaar, PT teacher at Point High School, had a habit of shouting instructions out of the corner of his mouth. “Okay!” he barked. “You’re gonna do two laps around the field!”
Mr Pienaar was short – he used to play scrum half for South-Western Districts – but he made up for a lack of stature with attitude and authority.
We were a group of about 80 kids in Grade 10, barefoot, dressed in navy vests with light-blue stripes on the shoulders. We stood on the field in front of our school in Mossel Bay in the late-morning sun. It was time for our annual fitness test.
A few guys swung their arms in circles; one or two reached
