SECURITY DEPARTMENT: DIAMOND THEFT

[Michael Alexander]

Here's a translation for those of you who forgot the taal! ( Charmaine in good humour!)  ;)

Hello Adrian

It is good that we talk a small Afrikaans,so lots sums of the salties do not understand. The salties was but always in the majority. Live your olders still? If you maybe does know wher Uncle Bert the Hunter, John Coetzer, Fallguy Princetoilet and Debbie Buildchard is,late me asb know, Nice stay.

Charmain


;)

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Hi Charmaine,ja my pa is nou 75 en my ma 71.ons het April 2006 hulle 50ste huweliksherdenking gevier,volgende jaar is ek en Mariaan 25 jaar getroud ...phew..Oom Jan is in Swakop,Oom Bert weet ek nie..vanaand lekker gebraai en WP se wen ook gevier.

lekker aand

[bobbysmith]

now im lekker warem,i will give all my afrikaans friends a little diitty that i remember from my om days,all in afrikaans,here goes my jaapies,only jokeing my friends,   een koppie snot en n piespo*s pie,tweer donkie ballas en tamatie slie. go on tell me how my afrikaans spelling has fared over the years,had a great day my friends,please all take good care,love bobby x

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Hi Mike,i want two burnt bread wif bacon and egg on tlop....engleesh pletty glood i say....Mrs O' Brien,remember her.. will slaughter the lot off us..

[Andrew Darné]

Who knows that diamond theft story , where the Okies landed a plane on the beach on the mining area, to pick up their stash of stones, but could'nt leave, because the sand was to soft.......?

:-[

A Mr John Kennedy, who prospected and mined diamonds at Chamais Bay from September 1949 to August 1951, collected 2 preserving jars full of selected stones (1398 uncut gems, 2276 carats) and stashed them under a rocky overhang near the beach at Chamais. He later shared his secret with a decorated and knighted ex fighter pilot Morrison Lorne, who would help him recover his loot from its hiding place.
They took off from Luderitz before sunrise on 18 December 1952 and landed on the beach at Chamais at low tide where Kennedy collected his loot.  Lorne decided to take off from the beach and to do so instructed Kennedy to lift the tail of the plane (Austen, a tail-dragger) and run with it for as long as he could while it built up speed. He would later be picked up by CDM security. He did so for a short distance before dumping the tail and clambering onto the wing of the plane. Kennedy suffered psychological instability from a wartime incident, and decided against being left in the dark and misty conditions. Unfortunatley for them while Lorne was helping Kennedy into the plane and attending to take-off the front wheel struck a rock and the take-off was aborted.

They were both later picked up by the CDM security dept. and faced trial January 1953.

Not a bad pciking if you consider current diamond prices; if they were successful that is...

[georg ruf jr.]

Great story Andrew. Sounds almost like a James Bond movie.
As kids in om we always only heard parts of the roumers going around and adding fantasyto the stories ourselves.
Got any more.