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Nervous pupils watch as white right-wingers brandish batons and hurl racist insults to prevent them from attending school in the white Ruyterwacht suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday. The protesters were pushed back by a line of police after buses carrying more than 3,000 students arrived at the school. The school, reserved for white students under apartheid, had been lying empty for some time but was occupied last month in an effort to ease overcrowding in township schools. It was the second straight day that white residents of this working-class suburb north of Cape Town gathered at the school to protest the busing of blacks from Khayelitsha township. Despite the exchange of jeers and taunts, there were no clashes.