Any South Africans on here?

The Museum is on the top end of Oxford street, across from the tech.
How funny - I left there in June '96. I used to work for Da Gama textiles - bet you heard of them!
If you ever heard of that bus that was ambushed - I was on it...... we had a security guard killed and two terrorists, RIGHT as we got to the gate at Da Gama.

I didn't have a horse when I lived there.... I'll have to go through all my years to remember what year I was where... I moved to east london in '85, lived on Gately Street for about a year, then moved near to the school - I was at Hudson park, then I went to the tech college, and moved to Beacon Bay for a while.... then back to Southernwood, then to the Quigney - I also worked at the Markhams store in town - and was lucky enough to be THERE when they had Riots on Oxford street - spent a few hours hiding in the back room!
Sheesh, the things that went on in that town!
I had a couple of friends killed in the little bar just outside Cambridge - someone threw a hand granade into the bar.

I learned to shoot at Hudson park (LOL) and carried a gun for a while - not even my gun - but I traveled to the wild coast often, my sister lived there, and I wasn't going anywhere in the transkei without a gun!
(LOL - only HAD to shoot it twice)

What a time that was!

My Dad is a Chiropractor. If you know any I'll PM you his name! LOL
You jogged on along eastern beach then? Did you ever do the run they have I htink its in September - I can't remember what its called, the short run goes along the Eastern Beach, and the long run I think goes all the way to Nahoon.

Speaking of Nahoon - a friend of mine had his leg taken off there while surfing, he later died in hospital - he was so young.

Did you ever go to Numbers? LOL - I was there ALOT - mostly while it was still out by the drive in outside Beacon Bay...... then a few times when it was on the beach front.
 
Hey Godiva and Wildsky. Interesting reading your posts! I was born in Zim, moved to South Africa in 89 and have been living in knysna ever since. (lucky chicken hey?) While we were still in Zim, we used to travel to East London every Dec WITH A darn CARAVAN! (used to take 3 days to get there!) and stayed at Glen Eden. Used to be an awesome place and fab times were had as a teenager. Now live on a farm just outside Knysna with my hubby and 3 beautiful snotklapperkies, parrot, bull terrier, 45 Rhode island Reds and 400-odd ugly vleis hoenders. Soz bru, but I've gotta chuck to grab the kids from skool and score some biltong. LOL x
 
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OH Knysna is LOVELY - you lucky snot you!
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What a small world eh? And so funny that so many folks with links to East London of ALL places are here....
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My family always had Bull Terriers - LOL - the perfect dog out there eh?
Send some Biltong my way - sheeesh I could eat that for a week and not get tired of it..... nice peppered Biltong, just a little pink inside! LOL
 
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I heard Zim is having more problems, I see NOTHING on the news here.......... so I'm a little in the dark.

My best friend was born in Zim, and my brother was born in Rhodesia
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yeah, but the Zimbabwean people's troubles have not stopped with Mugabe. In the last two weeks the South Africans have launched widespread xenophobic attacks in most of the informal settlements around the country. They claim the foreigners (mostly Zim, Mozambicans, Nigerians, Somalians) have taken all the jobs and are the cause of the widespread poverty and unemployment. The brutality has been shocking and the country was temporarily in chaos. We now have literally millions of homeless and destitute foreigners living in church halls and community centres and being fed by volunteers as they have either had their houses burn't down, stolen or have been chased away from their homes with only the clothes on their backs. I am heartbroken for the Zimbabweans etc and cannot understand how the very same people who survived the horrors of apartheid are now inflicting the same torture they went through on yet another race. But alas, this is not a political forum, so on with the chickens.....
 
It has been awful to see the stuff that is going on Mammahen! I loved Knysna! So beautiful, I drove through there a few times on the way to Cape Town. INteresting how many of us have some kind of connection to the Eastern Cape and EL! I am feeling pretty homesick - been over five years since I was back... had trouble getting my son a birth certificate and hence no passport. But we should be getting that any day now! Then it is just the small matter of the price of tickets for our whole family!
 
I was supposed to be going over soon for a quick 2 week stop. My eldest daughter lives in PE and had a baby at the end of May - so I need to go see her and my granddaughter.... prices of air tickets NEED to start going DOWN now, its frustrating.
 
Hi, so I'm South African, born & raised. Grew up on the South Coast of KZN & the Drakensberg mountains & moved to Johannesburg in 2005. I moved to Israel by myself in January this year so I'm feeling the homesickness big time. Have a wonderful boyfriend from Alabama who makes my world sparkle & we are coming to the US in October so I can meet his family. He is in reserve army training this week though so I'm alone:(
 

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