Die Wagpos Tussen Alex Baai en Port Nolloth!

Michael Alexander · July 22, 2010, 07:19:52 AM

Hennie forwarded us this interesting photograph from the really old times. This is a photo of the CDM "gate" that was situated between Port Nolloth and Alexander Bay.

Now this was before my time in Oranjemund, but I am sure that a few of you will recall this "final" gate ....

Dankie Hennie!

Mike Stenson (RIP) · July 22, 2010, 04:59:46 PM

Remember it...... was there not two ?

Alfred Boehme · July 22, 2010, 06:41:20 PM

Mike S yes there was two I'm sure piece of the one is still there today I'm sure it is there where the road builders set up camp while taring the road

Michael Alexander · July 22, 2010, 08:32:21 PM

That would be 2km north of Holgat? But that is just a tin shack!

Nada Ulbrich (Rall)(RIP) · July 22, 2010, 09:27:22 PM

We knew it as Gate No2. It was exactly opposite the current Eskom substation. It was a house and a family lived there at one stage. Mike, this house and gate was still there in the late 70's, cannot remember when it was bulldozed, maybe when they built the substation.

Paul (Pepe) Freemantle · July 23, 2010, 05:04:13 AM

I remember it very well, it was called Gate No 2.

Malcolm Bertoni · August 25, 2010, 03:07:07 AM

Remember both gates very well.
When I returned to Oranjemund last year I tried to see where they were, but couldnt find any trace of them. They must have been demolished.

The tar road takes a different route now compared to the old dirt road.

Malcolm