Many Happy Returns ??

[Spikkels]

I have no ties with Oranjemund and am visiting only from time to time. My only ties with SuidWes is when I was way up north way back when Michael, my Orange friend, still played kleilat and the boertjies klapped his ears red every day ( LOL )    :emot19:

I noticed the warm camaraderie and that you guys are scattered all over but you are all brought together by this place in the desert you once called home or still calls home.

So ...... I would like to know, for interest sake, how you feel about your ex - town. I once stayed in Kuruman and would realy like to return hence my curiosity.

[Michael Alexander]

I voted to leave this damn place, not because Paula is leaving, but the times are a changing, the last drop of Oranjemund is being squeezed and there are very few of us left here, Afrikaaners included......

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

Ag don't fib Mike, admit it, you going to miss me!!!!!

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[Michael Alexander]

The only  thing i'm gonna miss is your money that you spent in this here shop!

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Would never go back will NEVER be the same as it was back in the day

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

I would like to go for a couple of days to see how it has changed but to live there NO. As Diana said it will never be the same.

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

Barbara, if you come to see how it's changed bring tissues, cos you going to cry

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[Michael Alexander]

Agree with Paula, My father in Law and myself drove down to the riding club to get horse manure for his garden and we were discussing how the town is staring to look neglected...but compared to other namibian towns, it's still tops.... but it will never be the same again, it's purpose spent!

[georg ruf jr.]

I'd only want to see how things changed and let old memories come up for a moment. See who's still around I know from the 70s.
Then have a braai and drink and Jägermeister with Paul, Michael ..... Before leaving for ever.    bling1

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

My Dad went back to Tsumeb a couple of years ago, and he was very disappointed with what he seen. The place had got very run down. He went to Swakopmund aswell and said if he had to go and live in Namibia that would be one place he would go.

I seen a program of a guy going through namibia with camels and he went to oranjemund seen the town though not much of it. He traveled through the dimond area to luderitze and when he got to ludiritze i was very shocked. That is one little town that has changed.

[Michael Alexander]

The guy on the camel topic is also on a previous post,  I agree Swakop is the last place left that has'nt gone done, due to the fact that it needs to keep it's image up to attract tourists...... I reckon there's about 2 years left for Oranjemund, max 3......

[Florrie van Zyl (Muir)]

Sad to think our dream town no longer is. I am planning to come to the re-union and to bring my family to show my children where I grew up, but if its as bad as you make it sound, they will wonder why I brag about the place so much.

[barb (Fry)]

I also thought years back I'd like to show my son my town - but realised after immigrating and taking him back to his home town and (seeing how quickly things change) that he'd never understand, so I'm gonna leave it where it is in my memories and here on the site.  The pictures where enough for me.  I would dearly love to mingle with all the Oranjemunders (ex and present residents) that I have met and chatted to of late but think I'd prefer to do it at a new venue.

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

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Thank you to friends, teachers, parents and everyone else who had a part in the building process, during my period of being a resident of Oranjemund, but I do not want to return there.  I don't mind about the changes - that's part of life and must happen for the better or the worse - I accept them for what they are and sculpt my life around them.  I just don't want to return to my youth again - I have lived those years, the memories are great (even the incidents that have upset me way back then are now fond rememberings) and the friends and aquintances from then are even better  -  I would love to see you all the way you are now.

I think most of us have these clinging memories - not because of the town Oranjemund, but because of all the people who shared our lives there.  Yes, it will be great to take my kids there and show them what was part of my roots, but to some extent I don't think it will have the impact on them as it would have on me, 'cause they live their own live and have to create their own memories - they can never relive mine.  What would be so special to them about the mouth of the Orange river?  They did not have the fun there that we had.

No, I am happy where I am, but I live with the utmost thankfullness for where I have been and where I come from. 

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Hear, Hear    KOOS are you reading this seeing as though you on line at the moment