Everyday, I have watched for the last 2 months as the Advance Lorry's move into town, to remove people from the town..... The house's are staring to empty out..... and today it hit home, the Advance people came to take my In laws away..... that beautiful garden will start to die tomorrow morning..... their neighbours Garden ..... already turned yellow...
I took a few snaps of the empty houses, not sure why, I think it was in case I returned at the age of 60 and everything was sand, the tree's gone, Kolmanskop style.... that I would have the pics to show my grandparents, how my town had died.....
Is there nobody out there who cares? Is there nobody out there with the bandage we need?
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Hey Mike The only way to stop the bleeding is to put a bandage on. Remember your in laws are retiring, they were going to go at some stage. At least the mine is still up and running and we must be gratefull for for some small miracle that it is other wise we would all be standing in line trying to get across the border with nothing. Remember the pain is only for a short while and then it goes. I am happy to look after some plants so that they do not go to waste if you want? At least you can come and look at them any time you want to. Just please don't bring the white horse 202
Any way as one door closes another opens, come on dry those tears and lets get this thing going again.......
Hi mike i know what how u feel.Noddy and i have just gone through what is going on there its sad i cried all the way to CT.All the friend leave that is the saddest.De Beers was good to us but i think they dont tell u what is going on.Hang in there thinking of u all very stressful
I am sitting with the Spar ROM from CPT, he was in Kleinzee yesterday.... Big trouble for that store, obviously I cannot give figures incurred, but the store was outsourced by the mine two years ago.... now they have debt and there is no way they will get out of it.... Kleinzee is like a ghost town already.......
Skinny, I am grateful that the mine is still running, even with less people, but surely there has to be something we can do with all the empty homes....
That WHite horse cannot find it's way outta my lounge,......
Sigh!
Whether one is retiring or not it is always sad and somewhat stressfull to take leave of your friends and family especialy when you've been together for so long. To see their homes, that they've spent so much time on and in, now empty and lifeless. Yes one should not dwell on the past, and it does ease ,but for nowjust plain crappy.
Mike, I noticed that all the windows have bars. We didn't have those 'back in the years' and I remember how we used to sneak in and out of the house through the windows. When did they put those bars up and did they do so because Oranjemund was becoming like the rest of SA?
Patricia, those bars were already put up in the late 70's or 1980...... it was more a case of something to do with the company's insurance policy, to get a lower fee....... At the time they were put up there was 0% crime here, the other thing, those bars are not really real, or any good, they are held on by a little tapping screw... if you push hard against them or kick them, they just pop out.... So it was more a case of window dressing to keep the insurance guys happy.....