Army Tanks in the scrap yard!

[Michael Alexander]

Hehehehe! Great stuff, be careful of our local online Dentist........

Thanks Bob, would begreat if we could have a few pages or paragraphs online......

[Malcolm Bertoni]

Hi Bob

Hopefully you had as much fun with your land yacht as we did with ours at Affenrrucken.  Except that it couldnt steer too well. . . .   Thing damn near killed me.  But still great fun.

Malcolm

[toonfandangl]

Hi Bob! you mentioned the dentist there in town, and I can remember late 69 or 70 the dentists at that time had some disagreement with management and both of them packed their bags and left the township so we were without any dental care. Remember it well I had had a tooth removed before I left the UK but the dentist had butchered the job leaving the root still in. It was Scottish doctor that finished the job, we went into the dentists surgery and I remember all the trays had white sheets over them. I suppose to keep the dust off, anyway we found what he was looking for (I was crapping my pants) but after that experience visits to the dentist never bothered me,..............             and no he did not take all my teeth out................

[Bob Molloy]

Brian ls Trobe's material on Oranjemund is quite lengthy and may need to be posted in several chapters. His recall of being headhunted by CDM for the post and his first impressions of Omund are hilarious.
But more intriguing and I'm sure of great interest to Bertie is his account of setting up the first fulltime dental surgery in Omund. He offered a very high level of dental care, including maxillo-facial surgery. Most of you who were children in Oranjemund in the Sixties and early Seventies would have been treated by him. At least one of his cases was presented at an international medical conference in Paris as a world first. Indeed a man for all seasons, he was an avid poet and published several booklets including poems on Oranjemund. 
He was also a great community activist and among other things was behind the setting up of the Mule Derby and the associated children's playground. After Oranjemund he served several terms as mayor of Grahamstown and went on to international fame as one of the first eco-activists in the waste management field.   
Among other achievements he designed and built SA's first energy from Waste Project to produce electricity and developed a process to treat human waste by forced aeration composting. He also created processes to treat animal waste. and developed a patented waterless odorless sanitation system which is manufactured in South Africa and Ghana.
His work in this field attracted a swathe of awards including the very prestigious Gold Award for the best Innovation and Contribution to Health Care in Africa by the Organisation of African Union and World Intellectual Property Organisation, the Terra Nova award for Land
and the Intel Environment Award presented at the Tech Museum Awards held annually in Silicon Valley, California. His 'Enviro Loo' was one of 580 nominations representing 80 countries considered for the Tech Awards.
In his acceptance speech Brian explained that half the world's population – some 3-billion people – did not have access to fresh water and sanitation. His invention is a dry sanitation system that requires no water, chemicals or electricity for its operation.
If anyone is interested in reading further on this aspect Google The Brian La Trobe Foundation for a backgrounder.
I'm still trying to twist his arm to get the Oranjemund material on the website. He's amenable to the idea but as you can imagine he is, even in his eighties, a very busy guy and may take some time to get around to it.

[Pat Jackman (Kuhn now)]

The only tanks I remember were in the grounds of the Moth hall.  We lived in what was then the last house in town - 38th 13th Avenue and the rugby field was across the road and was surrounded by poplar trees.  I was in Sub A in 1955 and Mrs Revington was my teacher, and she made a great job of teach us to read, write and do sums; I believe she lived a very long life. My brother Tony was born in April 1955 and is a journalist in Cape Town.  My other brother Phillip died after falling off his bike and hitting his head - we had Sunday School in the afternoon in the (I think - remember I am 61!) Davies Hall.  He was buried in Oranjemund.  We also had our "socials" there when I was a teenager.  Who is going to the Zonnebloem reunion in September? Gerry & I are definitely going. 

[SandyB]

Morning Pat ,, see  list on the reunion  board . ,, saw your name there ....Me will  be there ...

[john wilson]

Hello Sandy,I have a wee bit of useless information for you ,when I left Omund in 1973 ,being a member of Optima Lodge they had a wee farewell for me and they all signed a card ,your Dad could sign his name backwords and if you put it up to the mirror it was a perfect signature,amazing the practice to get that right. I still have that card somewhere but Im not going to try and find it today but will try and get it posted soon. John.

[SandyB]

John  thanks for that .. my Dad  had the most  beautiful handwriting ,,,, follow this link    you will see  two   letters  he wrote ,,,, 

http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/index.php?topic=544.0