Driehoek (G9)

Name: Driehoek

The General Electric
Company Ltd
commissioned a
power station at
Driehoek (near
Germiston) in 1899..

The train pulls into Brakpan station. A man selling
cellphone-accessories gets on; so does another
selling crisps and keys. There is no longer enough
seating space and Phailane relinquishes his seat to
an old lady. The sun is now up.
Another passenger gets up to preach. Women
have deviated from their biblical role, he says,
which is to “obey their husbands and look after the
children, not to do work outside the house.” The
sermon is long enough for the train to pass
through Apex, Range View, Dunswart,
Boksburg, Angelo, Germiston, President, Driehoek,
Geldenhuys and Cleveland, traversing rusting
industrial areas, mining land, informal settlements,
vacant buffer zones, declining business nodes,
leafy white suburbs… “A prototypical cross-section...

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