My Oranjemunder Emails.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

        I find many things I can't resist like     :emot186:

[georg ruf jr.]

What would my day be without you guys? 
@Diana: Thanks
@Michael: That's true, I would... 

[Michael Alexander]

From Colin..

"Hi Mike

Don't know if you will remeber Trevor & Lindsay Hedenrych. They wer in
Oranjemund for about 14 years not sure from year to year all I can remember
is that we left when I was 4 years old so that would be 1971 which means
they would have been there since 1957. Anyway my dad passed away last year
May 2007.(Trevor Heydenrych)

Cheers,

Colin Heydenrych"

[SandyB]

Colin.. under Kids of our time a pic of your  brothe keith  .. sandy

[Michael Alexander]

An email from Bois Wilson, he is a member here, and I remember him from the original site, if any of you can help with 50's and 60's let me know. I unfortunately have mostly articles from the 70's onwards. So come on you 50's and 60's kids...drop us a line...

"Hi Mike:  we corresponded a while ago, when you first put a less
sophisticated site up... you're doing a great job!  What you have now is
really great.  I registered, but am in the middle of something right now,
but will get in touch with the forum shortly.  I did have some incredible
contact, however, with Joco Mueller.

I just wanted to send a short note to update the lost diamonds section in
reference to my Mom and Dad:

Wilson, Jack Dawson:   1995
Wilson, Francis Rosalie: 2001

As per our previous correspondence, they were in Oranjemund from the mid
50's to the mid 60's.  My Dad managed the store.

Special requests:  if you have any more school or sports photos from '56
through '62, I'd love to see them. Also, if there are any newsletters from
that period, I'd also love to see them.  Finally, the Players program that
was posted was great - there was a little caricature of my Dad in the
corner and it got me in touch with Joco, which was really worthwhile.  If
you have any programs or info on the previous years productions (especially
the Sound of Murder and Lock up your daughters, that would be phenomenal.)

I really wish I could make that reunion, as my birthday falls Nov 14 - it
would be a phenomenal thing, but am unfortunately stuck in Toronto.  One
day, however, I'll be back to show my daughter the town!  I hope you're
still there when that happens.

Thnx again for all your phenomenal work!

bois
"

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

@ Bois

Nice to hear from the oldies

I visited Joco Müller together with Günther and Helga Machts in the early 80 these

Found them through the forum

Georg

Oranjemunder 1973-1979

[Michael Alexander]

Name: Michael Norman
From: Pretoria
Email: michael.norman@goodmetals.co.za

Comments: A customer told me about this website and I must say that it was great for me to view the town of my birth. We lived in Oranjemund for a short period, I think it was from "63-65/66", but I was born there on 6th February 1964, even though I don't have much recollection of those days, my eldest sister Avalon started school there so she would know more than I do, but if anyone remembers the Norman family back in the day, they are welcome to contact me, my parents names were; Walter Andrew, known as (Wally) and my mother name was Elizabeth, known as (Betty). My other sisters names are Lynn and Melinda and a brother Gregory.

Thank you &
Kind Regards,


Michael Norman
Sales & Marketing Manager

[SandyB]

Yes  Michael  I  remember  your  family .. had  some contact with your  sister Avalon  via  sareunited but  it just  seemed to fizzle out .. It  was around the time  your  mum passed away ..  a  few  years ago ..

              Sandy Buchanan

[Michael Alexander]

Just received an Email from John Creedy in Canada, he will be arriving in Oranjemund on Monday..... after quite an abscence.... it's always great to welcome "old" timers back...... Looking forward to this..... the power of the internet.....

[Michael Alexander]

For all you Rhodesians....

"Michael ...

My name is Dave Cooper and I am the founder of a web site called THE
GREAT NORTH ROAD ( www.greatnorthroad.org ). I started my website
over 13 years ago to bring together all the people scattered over the
world who used to live in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). Today we have
over 4,000 members world wide.

And one of our members used to live in Oranjemund, and I suspect some
Northern Rhodesians probably lived there and might still do. We share
a mining experience and culture.

Your site looks great and is very similar to ours. We just held a big
reunion in Johannesburg this year, and we do every year somewhere
around the world where our people have settled.

I am going to link from our site. Maybe you want to do the same.

Met vriendelijke groeten ...

Dave Cooper
Founder of the Great North Road web site
Amsterdam
Nederland
"

[Michael Alexander]

from Dave Hucker:

"Hi Michael,
am about finished putting together a collecrion of slides taken in
Oranjemund circa 1972 - 82. Unfortunately as I explained to John Creedy a
lot have been damaged and unusable due to all the moving around done by
Yvonne & myself
I will copy them to CD and either give them to someone to bring to the
reunion or post to you if you let me have your address.
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend but please accept my apologies.
I would love to contact your Dad as he and I started at CDM within 2 weeks
of each other in 1972
Incidently the lady trapeze artist in the Flying Oslers is my wife Yvonnes
cousin. The trupe traveled around the world and won nany prizes. She had a
bad accident on the trapeze a few years ago and retired from "flying" She is
a New Zealand resident but is presently managing a circus in Australia.
Keith Anderson is still alive and is a professor at UCT
All the Best
Dave Hucker "

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Nice to hear of Dave

@ Michael what would you say that i have a 8mm film from that artist group on the xmas fair LOL

i do....but hats the use if you have no DSL

[Michael Alexander]

I have applied for ADSL for the shop...lets see how that pans out...

[Michael Alexander]

"WE LEFT ORANJEMUND APPROX.32 YEARS AGO AND STILL MISS ALL THE GOOD TIMES.MY TEENS WERE BOPPING IN YOUTH CLUB AND GOING TO THE ONE AND ONLY CINEMA IN TOWN.HOW WE MISS THOSE CARE FREE DAYS ! MY HUSBAND RONNY V.D. ELSHOUT AND I MET AND MARRIED THERE.SO SAD TO SEE THAT  THERE ARE SO MANY LOST DIAMONDS , SOME GONE FAR TOO YOUNG.THANKS FOR A GREAT WEBSITE AND MAY IT GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH.JENNIFER VAN DEN ELSHOUT[LANGFORD]"

[Michael Alexander]

I thought this was interesting, from a person that was never even in Africa...

You read the following from the bottom up.....

"Hello !



No I´m not an ex Oranjemunder and have never visited Namibia, unfortunately. To tell you the truth, I probably never will.



Though I´d very much like to. But  it´s by far to expensive, being a middle aged middle income divorced father of two sons in their early twenties.



A couple of years ago I studied English at the University of Dalecarlia, in a feeble attempt to become a teacher, together with a countryman of yours by the name of Moses Naguib. He is a native Tamarama (??) speaker and had an English-Afrikaans dictionary to assist him. As I recall it Tamarama has 12 different "klick"-sounds. Amazing.



So I´ll keep on surfing the net, and your country and  the rest of southern Africa with it´s exciting mixture of many black African cultures, Dutch, German and English are among my favourite objects.



Particularly I like the down to earth concept of your site/homepage. One really gets a grip what ordinary life in Oranjemund must have been like.



Yours,



Michael



Från: MIke and His acer [mailto:michael@oranjemundonline.com]
Skickat: den 19 februari 2009 11:20
Till: Enegren Michael
Ämne: Re:



Hi Michael, thanks for your kind words of encouragement, it is appreciated...



Out of curiosity, are you an ex Oranjemunder, visited Namibia before?



Please feel free to register on the forum section for a chat..





Mike

----- Original Message -----

From: Enegren Michael

To: michael@oranjemundonline.com

Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:08 AM



Thanks for a simply wonderful site !



A site like yours makes internet surfing worthwhile.



Yours,



Michael Enegren

Dalecarlia

SWEDEN"