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Jul 14, 20217 min read

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

THE STERKSPRUIT U.F.O. Apart from being an ardent music fanatic, I also collect and read science fiction. I have done so from quite an...

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Jul 13, 202111 min read

ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSICIANS

EDMUNDO ROS & I When I was a kid, I was an avid fan of the radio. A set was always on in our home and I listened to everything that was...

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Jul 13, 202113 min read

MY ARMY DAYS

I wish I could say I enjoyed my time in the army but I really didn’t – I hated every second of it. I’m sorry to say that the Defence...

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Jul 12, 202149 min read

MY LADYBRAND YEARS

I fell in love with Ladybrand the moment we came over the apex of the Platberg and there far below, lay the lights of the town. Dad had a...

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Jul 12, 202141 min read

MY EARLY YEARS IN WINBURG & TROMPSBURG

I was born in Kroonstad and while I was still a baby, we moved to Winburg. I naturally recall very little of those early days. Mom’s...

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Jul 10, 20216 min read

STERKSPRUIT DAYS

Some months after I arrived in Sterkspruit, the manager, Tom Wiggett was transferred. Tom had opened the branch and had done a wonderful...

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Jul 10, 20213 min read

TRAINING CENTRE VISITS

My very first visit to the Training Centre in Johannesburg happened in 1966. It was my first visit to Johburg as well and I used every...

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Jul 10, 20216 min read

PHILLIPPOLIS DAYS

Philippolis originally was a mission station of the London Missionary Society and gets its name from Dr John Philip who was...

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Jul 10, 202113 min read

MEMEL DAYS

The second branch I was posted to was in a town even smaller and more remote than Fauresmith where I started. Coming from the dry, grim...

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Jul 8, 20212 min read

THE GOLD COINS AND I

In 1967 I was sent to Philippolis as agency teller. The then Verwoerd Dam (Now Gariep Dam) was being built and at the coffer dam stage....

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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSICIANS

MY ARMY DAYS

MY LADYBRAND YEARS

MY EARLY YEARS IN WINBURG & TROMPSBURG

STERKSPRUIT DAYS

TRAINING CENTRE VISITS

PHILLIPPOLIS DAYS

MEMEL DAYS

THE GOLD COINS AND I

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