Gordon Brown?

[georg ruf jr.]

good work Cherry. Thank you.

[Michael Alexander]

Well researched..... and the tale is still alive and well.....

[Michael Alexander]

Reading that article again, it is totally skewed..... sensationalized.... what asbestos mine? How bad were the compounds? How do you enforce carat call? Just my thoughts....

[Patricia Lotte]

You should see the compounds in this place ... and we're in 2008 ...!!!

[Michael Alexander]

Good or Bad....? COmpounds? Who stays there?

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

it's a holiday camp for when you go visit there Mike!


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vampire

[Michael Alexander]

Says her that lives on a cramped overtaxed island!

[georg ruf jr.]

Geez Michael. T slowely but surely feeling wha you felt like all these years. SHE CLOSER THAN EVER!!!!!

[SandyB]

The compounds .. yes .. looking back .  one could say inhumane .. but then again  .. thats where it was ..  for those that came and lived there for the 6 month renewable contract .. it was a way of earning money ..   you still get reports from europe of migrant turkish etc  workers also cramped into  the same conditoions today ..and  yes  .. asbestos .. I can understand the  plight of the miners  but  thats irrelevant to open pit diamond mining ..  the only hazard i could think of is silicosis ( sand dust  but thats from  crushing  activities  or people that work with  stone works ) .. but years ago we did not know the hazards of asbestos .. .. I  think now to  CT .. the caltex refinery .. people moaning about its fumes ..  but  years ago it was not surrounded by residential area .. in fact  at its inception it was in the  gramedoelas  as far as the  city  of CT went .. so  people  moved there ?? and now they moan .. not  that I'm downplaying the refineries responsibility in cleaning up emmissions  .. but  .. where are the  brains .. ?? move into  that environment expect asthmatic kids and other problems ..    the  refinery was there  and did  not  move in after them .. that I can understand as a reason to bitch .. I'm pretty sure with the GB story there is a certain amount of agrandasation   with people taking up the cudgels ..  it suits them  and keeps their  reason for  carrying on  another cause ?  ..  sure he may ahve opened up cans  of worms  .. but then ??

[Lance Olivier]

About twenty odd years ago I had the opportunity of going up to the new prospecting plant opened south of Luderitz (can't remember the name). Think it is quite a viable operation at the moment. Anyway the plant was located close to a ghost town (not Kolmanskop). There was a diamond mine in the area many years prior  +/- 1920's and looking at the hostels from that era made the hostels, at the time of the accusations, in OMD look like five star hotels. The hostel inhabitants would have to enter the mess area through a door at one end of the building, receive their food at a long serving counter (as seen in movies where prisoners chow) and then they would have to leave the mess through a door at the other end of the building. No evidence of chairs, tables, or dining area, etc. It is believed that the hostel inhabitants ate outside, exposed to the elements. As for the sleeping quarters, ablutions, don't want to mention it. I took some old 35mm photo's and will try post them. Maybe someone could help me out with the name of the plant, my memories shot .

[Michael Alexander]

That would be the Old Diamond TOwn of Elizabeth Bay, the hostel accommodation looks like cement pig pens.....

[Chris Macpherson]

correct there mike lad. i hav pics  of those somewhere but i dont know how to post them here........... help mike.

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

@ Chris Macpherson

Send those photos to me, i will edit and post them in the board....

Or you edit , resize to max 700 pixel

press " + additional options "

There you see the files in your PC,

Select, then press post

[Carl Wrbka]

Dont forget the stamp Chris.

[Hooter]

just a question ; Years ago , Luke Lisser's son was killed in a blasting accident , the blast went off prematurely . A certain Mr Brown was also present . could it have been Gordon ?