Nice place if it wasn't for some of the locals
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New President for Botswana
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:30 pm
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Seismic change in Botswana as party that ruled for 58 years loses power
President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s concession came before final results were...
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10 days in and yet to meet anyone who is unhappy. Bright guy but time will tell.
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Mon Nov 11, 2024 2:09 pm
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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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A building has collapsed in Nigeria’s megacity, Lagos, once every two weeks on average so far this year....
There are regulations, there are...
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Last post by OFSO
Sun Sep 01, 2024 8:20 pm
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Namibia Culling Wildlife for Meat
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PHXPhlyer » Wed Aug 28, 2024 4:35 pm
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Namibia plans to kill more than 700 animals including elephants and hippos — and distribute the meat
Namibia is planning to kill more than 700...
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No...Meaty and slow.
I would be one of the first to go in the pot...After the bullets run out.
Edited to add:
I would not be competition for them as...
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Thu Aug 29, 2024 5:56 pm
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Fire in Johannesburg today...
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OneHungLow » Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:38 am
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A t least 73 people have died - including seven children - in a Johannesburg building fire.
More than 50 others were injured.
Officials say it is...
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The site of the fire in Johannesburg, which left 73 people dead at last count on Thursday, started out as the Central Pass Office, which rigidly...
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Last post by Woody
Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:47 am
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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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Major Blue have had their license withdrawn, Not that upset they are a Injun setup who arrived here with mega dosh and announced that they were going...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:19 pm
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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:24 pm
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Farewell Bree Street Johannesburg.
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OneHungLow » Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:33 am
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Enough to make poor old Lillian Ngoyi turn in her grave.
Farewell Brie Street.JPG
A panicked WhatsApp message from the Johannesburg...
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Allows for some ironic humour...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:43 pm
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Shark bites boat!
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OneHungLow » Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm
Moment shark bites and begins to deflate boat full of tourists off South Africa coast!
The moment a shark bit and deflated a boat off the coast of...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm
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Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:13 pm
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The British Empire in Africa
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OneHungLow » Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:35 pm
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I thoroughly enjoy these colonial vignettes and anecdotes and so I thought I might share this site with those who happen to find themselves alone and...
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OneHung, thanks for that post. An enjoyable read....
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Last post by OFSO
Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:30 pm
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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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Last post by TheGreenAnger
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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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:16 pm
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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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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
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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Last post by Pinky the pilot
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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Last post by Pinky the pilot
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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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
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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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
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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Last post by ian16th
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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Last post by Woody
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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