etto, to a runner on a treadmill; working relentlessly, but remaining in place. He also explains that raises in a black tenant's salary must be reported to the landlord, who will raise rent accordingly and keep tenants on the figurative "treadmill". Fugard's equivalent of such a notion is much less metaphorical.
             South Africa, unlike the ghettos of Harlem, has a much more visible and widely accepted sense of segregation and inequality than the American society, which is filled with "liberal speeches" and "lofty editorials." In an environment where there are still "white only" benches, Sam and Willie are practically slaves, forced to work as servants because there is no other way. The play opens with the two grown men cleaning and working and closes with the men cleaning and working. Their lives revolve around working for Hally and his parents, but still neither of them have enough money for one song from the jukebox. The black people of the time in South Africa, including Willie and Sam, could not readily access an education like Hally or get a well paying job. Willie and Sam, thus, are like the residents of Harlem's ghetto, limited to the inescapable reality
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