Gangs and Names!

[Michael Alexander]

How many of you belonged to a "Gang" in Oranjemund, what was your area?

In the 70's , we were the Scorpions, and the E section of 1st and 2nd ave , including the bushes up until the Yacht club garage was our area, we also owned a large junk of the dumps...... Those were the days......

Then obviously we all fell under the "Soutjie or Rooinekke" Domain also........blerrie boertjies!

[georg ruf jr.]

I never belonged to a gang. Just "freindly" with some of the guys in the "blue boy gang". I remember the Laubschers and Boltons there. They all lived on the north east side of town.

[Michael Alexander]

Those in the North East side of town controlled The sand Quarry, Afrikaaners in the 70's.....


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[georg ruf jr.]

The guys I meant were english. But that was the mid 70s. But I suppose you guys know their names.
We slept in the quarry sevral times. I remeber the sheeps heads lying near cold fireplaces.

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Hi George, we never were really eng or afr guys,i think we were all a mad bunch thrown together for a short period of time and some of us elected to stay,while others wandered off to all corners of the world,yet here we are chatting away,where else are you going to find that .......

[bobbysmith]

as previously posted,in standard 4 and 5 the souties ruled the boers,then the boers ruled the souties,it depended who turned out on the day,michael langford was the soutie hard man,leon trollop was the boer leader,all this in 1970/1,i remember being hauled up on stage by doc fenter and being given a harsh lesson in the rights and wrongs of re enacting the boer war,all this whilst having the little speakers in assembly churning out marching music from the 2nd world war,no wonder we were confused,on a brighter note,away from the quarry we were all best mates,i bet adriaan van rooyen remembers this,if i remember correctly he was good mates with a kid called zirky berg or van der berg,i hope you put me rite on this adriaan,i am sure i have school pictures of you and the athletic team from the early 70s.

[georg ruf jr.]

Hi Adriaan.
Iwas wondering whether I know you. Dis you travel Namibia wizh the scouts for 2 weeks in 73 or 74?
Georg

[SandyB]

gangs  yes  ...  I  remember  we  had  a gang  called Spectrum ...  the  english  afrikaner  thing   ??  always  reason  for  a  scrap ..  lots  of  times  all  forgotten  and  became  friends .. tell  more  about  that later  .. here  and extract  from  iscatterlings   writings    about  the  spectrum  gang  .. also  I  rmember me  and  Richard  Wrethman  being the two  "billy  the  cats "  from  the comic  series .. we  wore  black  and would  wander  around  at  night   in peoples gardens  etc .. never got  caught  .. never got    around  to  making  the  cat  uniforms  either ...
here  the  spectrum  writing  ...

I  remember  when  I  was  crazy
about  a  comic  series .. Spectrum  there  was  Captain black Captain  blue
etc ..  we  each  had  our  name  .. I  was  Captain  blue ...  we  had  our
spaceship HQ   # 1  was  in  a  tall  pine  in the  trees  . one had  to
climb  up ( head  for  heights )   and  each  perched  in  the  top  on one
of  the  branches  .. once  again  miracle  that  no one  broke  any  bones
.........  alternate  HQ  was  also  the  mule  derby  tower ... we  could
survey  our  realm   from  the  height ///  one  day  I  was  cornered  by
the  Vrot  bananas  in  the  mule  derby  grounds  .. they had  got wind
that  I  belonged  to  a  select  group  .. by  that  time  I  had   largely
stopped  the  english afrikaner  infighting  ( tell  more  about that
sometime ) .. anyhow  they  proceeded  to  " torture " me  to  get  the info
.. holding  me  arms  behind  the  back   and running me  into  one of  the
stalls  hitting  me  on  my  chest   winding  me .. finally  I  gave  them
the  "name"   and  they let  me  go .... I  walked  away  smugly  ...  I
had  told  them  the  name  was Spermem .. by  that time  we  knew  sperm
was  something  you  did  not  talk  about   ...  they  would  possibly
bandy  the  name  about  and  get a  Klap  from  an  adult ?? good  chance
I  suppose ... ??

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Hi George,Bobbysmith, na i never did like the scouts and voortrekkers i thought,what the hell we were going to the army anyway,i remember Trollop, Langford and theremust be plenty more oaks we forgot,like Jannie Pieters,Hugo Badenhorst,Frikkie Jacobs and so forth,hell i can't remember them all,but i think you guys were a few years ahead  :emot98:Maybe you remember my mom and dad, Frans and Trish who are living in the Strand nowadays

[barb (Fry)]

what about the voortrekkers, next door to the jukkskei baan.
was it near the tanks that side of town, near the soccer field, am I lost, maybe.......

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

There is a sort of private school where the voories were,you were right,just opposite the soccer field which is the hocky field today and the tanks nearby at the moths, remember now?    

[barb (Fry)]

  
not got altzheimers yet then....

[georg ruf jr.]

I only remember the tanks accros the road from the pobox.
Moths was behind the soccerfield as far as I remember.
Adriaan. May I ask how old you are. Maybe Barb can help me remember.

[Michael Alexander]

Georg Jnr, you will have to type louder, as Adriaan is deaf after driving over a landmine in the army........

[bobbysmith]

hi adriaan,i am  pleased you remember those names,yes i have forgotten a lot of names,i will post a few group fotos from our time in om,i am 49 yrs old,can i please ask your age,i remember your parenst,i was born in om in 1958 and left in 1972 after my dad passed away,some other names i rember are,norman buckley,brian ayre,piggy jackson,anthony haywood,jonny seibers,mike swanson,lesley myers,the two love boys,god i could be hear all nite,i will post again when i have some time,take good care,cheers bobby