Although many rural villages lacked reading material, Rentia received the ‘Jongspan’ and ‘Patrys’ magazines in the post, and also read the Transvaler newspaper a day or so late. For the children, it was exciting to get books from the provincial book truck that came to supply the library. It was open Friday mornings and Tuesday afternoons, and she quickly finished reading one of the two allowed books to take out another one before closing time.
Rentia believes the greatest gift was to be able to just be a child.