Nice place if it wasn't for some of the locals
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Only in Effrika
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Mrs Ex-Ascot » Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:36 pm
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This amused me just now; :))
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Clinic last week. And this clock is kind of working it keeps changing times. The front and the back show different times. Neither make any sense.
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Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:49 am
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African humour...
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TheGreenAnger » Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:12 pm
Don't f@$% with the Sangoma!
In the great days of the British Empire, a new commanding officer was sent to a South African bush outpost to relieve...
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Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:12 pm
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Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm
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Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:00 pm
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SA Winery Ducks
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PHXPhlyer » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:19 pm
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How duck 'soldiers' became this 300-year-old winemaker's secret weapon
(CNN) — South Africa's viniculture industry employs around 270,000...
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Vergenoegd Löw produce some fines wines and the ducks are very cute to behold. Well worth a visit if you are in that neck of the woods.
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Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:21 am
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Denel staggers on!
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:15 pm
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Terry Crawford-Browne
The ANC and its militarist hangers-on just would not listen when it became glaringly evident during the 1994/95 Cameron...
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Who woulda thunk this back in the 70's...
A seven-strong group of SA Air Force (SAAF) pupil pilots working on aviation skills including piloting...
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Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:16 pm
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Moremi Air Prang
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Ex-Ascot » Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:29 pm
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Relax Cape. Understand that they plonked an Airvan in this morning. Statistics balanced. First since the tragic AKD in 2011. Seems no one hurt.
For...
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I posted the above on TOP without the comment about the CEO. It has been removed. The CEO threatened to sue them due to my comments at the time....
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:39 am
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In and out of Africa
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Undried Plum » Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:44 pm
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John Barry did such a brilliant job with Born Free that it was inevitable that he would be chosen to write the score for Out Of Africa....
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One of my favourite pieces of music from one of my favourite films from an era in African history I find totally fascinating.
John Barry was a...
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Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:30 am
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Pan African Parliament chaos...
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:06 am
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So much for African unity!
Scuffles broke out during a meeting of the African Union parliament on Monday, as a week-long debate over the election...
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I sometimes wonder just how many of the NR Population who celebrated the end of White rule now secretly wish that the Whites were back in power. :-?
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Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:00 am
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Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.
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ian16th » Fri May 14, 2021 10:01 am
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A recovery project in the making!
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If you broke it, you didn't get to go home until you fixed it.
Yers!! Like the time I was once on a strip the wrong side of the Owen Stanley...
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Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:57 am
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How to responsibly treat your motor
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ian16th » Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:42 pm
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........ the African way!
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Pity the old prison at the top of Roeland street isn't operational any more. Those idiots could have gone straight there without collecting R200.00....
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Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:44 pm
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Operation Argon - du Toit - Gerhard - British Intelligence
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:57 am
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I was prompted to think about this operation yesterday by an old friend who is suffering in lock down in Saudi Arabia and to whom I had sent a video...
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An Islamist extremist group in northern Mozambique has killed dozens of villagers in its most bloody attack.
More than 50 people were massacred in...
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Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:29 pm
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Airline Grounded By SACAA
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ian16th » Sun Feb 04, 2018 4:06 pm
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The one and only airline to fly between Margate and Joburg.
We're cut orf, we are!
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It seems as though we, in banana land, will have a service to JHB again!
On 17 October 2019 CemAir received its renewed Aircraft Operating...
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Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:10 pm
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SAA Mismanagement Causes Problems For Others
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ian16th » Wed Sep 18, 2019 12:10 pm
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SAA Mismanagement Causes Problems For Others.
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Maybe BA should use LHT, as one A380 flight to JNB operated 14 hours late earlier this week and last nights BA59 to CPT currently has a 20 delay,...
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Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:40 am
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Grace Mugabe
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ian16th » Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:27 am
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It would be 'unwise' for Grace Mugabe to visit SA again, say legal experts
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Of course this has nothing to do with Bob and Grace X(
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Last post by Woody
Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:40 am
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Botswana Hunting Ban
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Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:27 am
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Just read this article on the beeb online .
Throws a very positive light on the hunting ban here, and is well written in my opinion. :)
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I think it's great that they're going to Southern Africa, but do we really have to let them come back?
Couldn't we, y'know, just leave them there?...
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Last post by ian16th
Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:59 pm
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This wasn't mentioned....
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ian16th » Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:54 am
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...... as one of the 'perceived benefits' when the building of the Square Kilometre Array in the Northern Cape was punted.
Just how may current...
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Could have put the whole thing in Western Australia without any problems but no, politics got in the way which is why half the system will be built...
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Last post by Sisemen
Mon Mar 25, 2019 1:29 pm
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Helicopter down Gaborone
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Ex-Ascot » Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:00 am
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Reports coming in of a chopper down in Gabs. Apparently only the pilot killed. Landed on a pile of cars which are all on fire. Just been shown a...
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Actually guys I think I was given duff info. I am sure that it must be the incident that Cape has reported. Just too coincidental. Also the clip I...
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Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:37 am
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Airlink and Safair to merge.
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ian16th » Mon Nov 27, 2017 10:19 am
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Airlink and Safair to merge.
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Don't like to start more threads so put this here. Airlink bird strike yesterday out of Kasane. Could have been a worse place to hit.
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Thu Feb 28, 2019 4:36 pm
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Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:18 pm
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A new Effrican Blog
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ian16th » Tue Dec 04, 2018 10:35 am
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A welcome new site to replace one much missed.
Long may it reign.
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Thanks Ian, as will see I have signed up.
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Wed Dec 05, 2018 4:36 pm
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Air Zimbabwe to Lease a/c from Malaysia
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ian16th » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:43 am
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I know that Malaysian Airlines have spare A-380's but what would Air Zim use them for?
Do Malaysia want rid of any (more) B-777's?
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Kuala Lumpur - State-owned Zimbabwe Airways, has lost one of the four Boeing 777-200ER aircraft expected because of the payment delay.
The wide-body...
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Last post by Capetonian
Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:14 pm
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SAAF Chief apparently suspended
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ian16th » Fri Oct 05, 2018 11:14 am
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From African Pilot:
The officer commanding the South African Air Force (SAAF) Lieutenant General Zakes Msimang is apparently on special leave after...
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There's a surprise. an African official misusing and abusing the trust placed in him. I am struggling to believe that this is true,it must be 'fake...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Sun Oct 07, 2018 11:24 am
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New a/c type for Ex A to spot.
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ian16th » Thu Aug 23, 2018 2:57 pm
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On Monday 20 August Mahindra the holding company of GippsAero announced the sale of the first GA-10 Airvan to Major Blue a charter and scenic flight...
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The Airvan is certainty a nice aircraft. I think that I am correct in saying that the GA-8 has a very similar engine to the C206. The Airvan has much...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:46 am
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Did anyone know Len Morgan?
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boing » Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:07 pm
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Probably a pretty closed pilot community in SA so someone might be able to help.
Len retired from the RAF and I flew with him in Saudi Arabia with...
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Sorry, was not very clear.
As far as I know Len had no connection with South Africa until he moved there sometime after his Saudi Arabia period. The...
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Sat Jun 23, 2018 2:30 pm
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