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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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African Homemade Airplanes
Some creative Africans have managed to do the impossible by making airplanes out of scraps, they are the cheapest...
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Mon Sep 25, 2023 3:20 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Major Blue have had their license withdrawn, Not that upset they are a Injun setup who arrived here with mega dosh and announced that they were going...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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Last post by OneHungLow
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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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:12 pm
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Greece, specifically sailing the Saronic Gulf.
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G~Man » Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:12 pm
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Ahoy mateys.... and anyone else who knows Greece, @Mrs Ex-Ascot & @Ex-Ascot maybe....?
I am leading another flotilla of sailing catamarans in the...
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Sorry but we are Agean. Think RiS is your very best bet.
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:31 am
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
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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Standard of English as it is in NZ
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prospector » Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:36 am
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Was not aware we had this Department
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Dear Puzzled,
This was the original headline in the article:
Department of Conversation investigating after dolphin found beheaded on South Auckland...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm
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This will have China really worried!!!
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prospector » Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:20 am
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New Zealand must send strong signal to Pacific over China - Defence Minister Peeni Henare
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This Prme Minister has let the lure of Chinese money into his or other pockets blind him to response he will receive from the indigenous people in...
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Last post by bob2s
Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
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False passports, but not a problem for these folk
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prospector » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:58 am
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:-\
A man who may have unknowingly helped funnel money to terrorists behind the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka has been granted refugee status in...
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Sounds like a bunch of savages.
When I was there in 1973 a newspaper report included ran amok with a machete of a Maori on the funicular railway...
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 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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Sailing in Croatia---any advice
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G~Man » Thu Sep 05, 2019 5:43 pm
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I figured I would ask the learned masses of Ops-Normal, as I am sure some will be able to point me in the right direction. I did ask on the other...
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And that's why I don't have a super yacht or a helicopter. :((
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Not much point in having a Superyacht in Arizona, well not before the...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:52 am
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Last post by prospector
Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm
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Annecy
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reddo » Sat Jul 10, 2021 7:09 pm
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Flew to Annecy yesterday. It's near Geneva. Interesting terrain around the place. Small airport. A lovely little FBO with that delightful personal...
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What I know of Annecy is that it was the home town of the French family with a daughter that I met during a caravan holiday in 1959 at Carshalton in...
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Last post by G-CPTN
Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:41 am
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Last post by prospector
Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 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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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