The Green Spot

[Claire Mc Cullagh]

I remeber evert time my Mom or Dad did any gardening we were always asked to take the rubbish to the green spot.

[Michael Alexander]

Yep! Yep! , but the real green spot was down by the river, there where that little jetty is for the golf club pumps, place of attempted murder....  ah! the stories!

:o

[Michael Alexander]

So on my Saturday morning drive with the dog to the beach I took a snapshot of the real Greenspot..
and some fews down and up the river, Huh! who needs the Okavango?  ;D

[SandyB]

Attempted  murder .. there  was  a  murder  in I  think late 79/ early 80 ...  wont mention  names ..  but  the guys  body was  dumped in the river   near  the golf  club  and  his   car  abandoned  in  the  dumps ...  is  this  maybe  what  wer'e  talking about ??

[Michael Alexander]

NOpe , you're one was Van Eck or something , an appie was'nt it? Anyhow this one was attempted by 2 woman trying to knock a 3rd one off about 10 years back...... Love triangle type stuff I think, I was'nt there , Honestly!

:o

[bobbysmith]

hi mike,i returned to namibia in 1975 for a holliday and got talking to an ex omunder called mark van heerden,he had two brothers called wyne and grant,he told me that his brother grant was in prison for murder in om,any truth in that?

[Michael Alexander]

Yes , he was, but Last I heard he was out quite a while ago!

:-[

[SandyB]

Ok  name  mentioned ..  Grant  .. yes  he  is  out  ..  I  was  walking  down  Roodebloem   road  to  our  local   one  evening   and bumped  into  him ..  quite   uneasy  about it ..   he  used  to  hang around  Sportsmans  and  was  always  sort of  hanging  around  me  , kept  him  at distance , just  felt  uneasy ,, later  on  in  time   saw  him  hanging  out  with the  victim   .. the  rest  we  all know .. A  love  triangle  in  Oranjemund ?? think there  were many  .. working  behind a  bar  gave  one  a   fly on the  wall  aspect  of  things .. hey  it happens  everywhere  just that its  a  small  town and  everybody  sort of knows  everybodys  business ....

[Michael Alexander]

Sandy, there was another murder story here in the 80's somewhere, the Els kid knifing some guy in 7th ave to death... Gee! talk about the wild west! Security caught up with him in one of those tall tree's in 5th ave...

:-\

[Nicky Hodge]

Grant Van Eeden, ..... Remember him well. He was arrested in the Hexen Kessel if my memory serves me correctly !! We all thought he would get life. I had the hots for his sister Courtenay around that time, and recall dating her once or twice. ( Nice Chick ). I also served my apprenticeship with her other brother Mark at tech. I think there was an older brother Wayne, and a younger one called Ryan.
Their mother Faith, eventually left town after their Dad died. I think they lived in 72 - 2nd Ave, before the McCullagh's moved in. Does anyone know what happened to them all after this

[Delia]

it was jan smit that the els guy murdered - i worked with jan at uubvley in 83/84 - think he was a chargehand at one of the base workshops, nice guy, always smiling and friendly.

[brandonvdw]

I also remember the else murder he was about my age in time, he worked for the family video hire service, not sure if it was a love thing or money thing.....i remember being very scared about that when i heard as dale becker and myself had about 2/3 weeks before that got into a fight with him and his brother......if it is the same lot.....

[bobbysmith]

i met mark ,grant and wayne in 1975 or 76,they were liveing in windhoek at the time,the lived across the road from us when we were at e23/9th,and next door to cherry and coral alcock,so they were in e10th ave

[Nicky Hodge]

Wasn't there also a Serena Van Eeden ? What ever happened to her?

[Vikki de Jager (Summers)]

Hi Claire

I see that Michael has diverted your green spot post into a murder enquiry !!! To give you an update, the green spots that were painted onto the fences to demarcate garden refuse drop points became big rusty yellow skips that were dotted around at the end of every few streets. Most of the rubbish tended to overflow or else be dumped alongside the skips ! And there were constant reminders in the newsletter not to add household waste to the skips.The one at the end of my street disappeared a while ago and the designated dump site tends to start off as a small heap at the beginning of a week and tends to stretch over several metres as people arrive from all directions with their wheelbarrows and don't want to walk the extra few steps to add their pile to someone else's. Causes havoc when the east wind blows !!