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CRIME DOES NOT PAY
In the days when Internal Auditors were still known as Inspectors, the now standalone Security Section was a function of Inspection...
Sep 20, 202110 min read
VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
Well, maybe not quite! I meant to draw a comparison with the way computers have almost totally eradicated the Bank Clerk. We have not...
Sep 15, 202110 min read
LEPORINE MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILY
ROCKY We had not thought about keeping bunnies as pets, as our dogs and birds were excellent company. However, Pearly, the lady who used...
Sep 9, 20217 min read
AVIAN MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY
BUDGIES When my wife first moved to Port Elizabeth, before we were married, she took with her a green budgie called Joey. He was quite...
Sep 8, 202112 min read
Aug 30, 20210 min read
THINA (SCOOTY) IN PICTURES
NOTE : All these photographs are courtesy of my sister Pat Clark, now in New Zealand.
Aug 30, 20211 min read
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Aug 29, 20210 min read
CANINE MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILY
THIKA Sonja, my wife and I had no kids together and her daughter Debbie was grown-up by the time we married. We soon found that we really...
Aug 26, 202115 min read
CLARK WEDDINGS
NEIL CLARK & CHRISTIE-HELEEN DU PREEZ JACQUES VAN ROOYEN & HEATHER CLARK
Aug 23, 20211 min read
MY SISTER PAT (Largely as narrated by her)(Part 6)
Not long after, the bank started undergoing a radical metamorphosis which affected virtually every single employee at the time. Chris was...
Aug 23, 202115 min read
MY SISTER PAT (Largely as narrated by her)(Part 5)
Before we take on Lydenburg, Pat wants to depart from the timeline and digress a little. Picnics always featured strongly in the Clark’s...
Aug 23, 202124 min read
MY SISTER PAT (Largely as narrated by her)(Part 4)
Pat recalls happy family outings and picnics in the Soutpansberg and up in the forests just below the huge Hanglip stone outcrop. I...
Aug 22, 202116 min read
CULTURE SHOCK (Part 4)
RANDOM NOTES I’ve always been a stickler for being on time. I would have been horrified if I had ever been late for school so my staff...
Aug 22, 20215 min read
CULTURE SHOCK (Part 3)
RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION Something that amazed me at Sterkspruit was the number of churches and sects which had proliferated in the...
Aug 22, 20218 min read
CULTURE SHOCK (Part 2)
LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES I have my fair share of regrets and not least among these is the fact that I did not learn a black language such as...
Aug 22, 20216 min read
CULTURE SHOCK (Part 1)
JACOB MOTSAMAI MAKHOBOKOANE In late 1967 I was working as an agency teller at Phillippolis. About six months into the job, a call from...
Aug 22, 202111 min read
JACK AND THE HEART ATTACK
Henry Jacquire was my friend and fellow accountant in the little town of Lady Grey, some 60 km from Sterkspruit. “Jack” as we called him,...
Aug 21, 20214 min read
MY DEAR WIFE, THE BLONDE!
My dear wife of 30 years, Sonja, is an intelligent, loveable and fun person. You are very hard to please if you don’t take to this super...
Aug 7, 20218 min read
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