Still Living Here!

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

its always a wine thing Mike.....allthough Alfie only snorts nesquick ......

[henniek]

ordinary street scenes. not living in OM anymore

[Mike Voden (RIP)]

Hennie, that looks like Martin Sshoeman in the top photo

[henniek]

Yes Mike , its him on the right - black hair . they spent many years in Witsand , but heard that they moved to Strand a year or so ago . Martiens Schoeman  Office equipment tech .  I think his son is still in O Mund

[Mike Voden (RIP)]

Hi Hennie, as far as we know, Martiens still lives in Witsand. If he moved to the Strand, I'm sure we would have heard something and yes, his son Phillip still lives in Oranjemund and works in the Projects section

[henniek]

some more bad pictures OM 34 years ago

[henniek]

a few more

[henniek]

last of the bad pics.

[henniek]

"why post bad pictures ? " one of these days it will all just be memories of the older people . Quoting Mike Stenson ...   {The company is going get rid of everything that s not directly connected to mining.
The town will go, including the swimming pool so enjoy it while you can.
The school will go and the hospital and all services connected with it.
The library will go to and more can't think of them now.}

[Michael Alexander]

I beg to differ. I am sure there are elements in the management structure that realise in order to attract the "right" kind of skills to operate the mine that they need certain non core entities to be in place in the township, like a good school, clean, safe town , who would want to come and live in a dust bowl in the desert, the original custodians of the mine realized this back in the day, the current leadership would be wise not to forget this......

[Alfred Boehme]

Thats Piet Nel in the tele exchange pic