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STERKSPRUIT DAYS
Some months after I arrived in Sterkspruit, the manager, Tom Wiggett was transferred. Tom had opened the branch and had done a wonderful...
Jul 10, 20216 min read
TRAINING CENTRE VISITS
My very first visit to the Training Centre in Johannesburg happened in 1966. It was my first visit to Johburg as well and I used every...
Jul 10, 20213 min read
PHILLIPPOLIS DAYS
Philippolis originally was a mission station of the London Missionary Society and gets its name from Dr John Philip who was...
Jul 10, 20216 min read
MEMEL DAYS
The second branch I was posted to was in a town even smaller and more remote than Fauresmith where I started. Coming from the dry, grim...
Jul 10, 202113 min read
FISHING OFF PORT ELIZABETH
While I was working in Durban with Mr Roberts, I was sent to join some Reef auditors in Port Elizabeth, to audit the branch in Main...
Jul 10, 20213 min read
WALMER BRANCH & THE STANDER GANG (MAYBE!)
This story was told to me years ago by a manager at Port Elizabeth branch, by the name of Harry Lovemore. I have tried to contact Harry...
Jul 10, 20214 min read
DO YOU WANNA DIE ??
I was born in Kroonstad but my folks moved to Winburg not long after my birth. A year or two later and we found ourselves in Trompsburg,...
Jul 10, 20214 min read
M.W. THEUNISSEN
This is not the first time this man’s name has come up in the DCO forum on Facebook. I tried to get some of the people who knew him well...
Jul 10, 20217 min read
BAMBOOZLED BY A BIDET
Grahamstown is full of architectural treasures from the 19th and early 20th centuries and a fair number have been turned into places to...
Jul 10, 20213 min read
Tattles and Tales
Test Post for private family access only.
Jul 9, 20211 min read
MR W.A. ROBERTS (WILF)
Elsewhere in these reminiscences is mention of Mr Roberts’ Wartime exploits and I touched on what an awe-inspiring man he was. Let me...
Jul 9, 202111 min read
A.J. LE ROUX (ALEX)
“A Bank in Battledress” lists a similarly named soldier but I really have no idea if it was Alex or not. My apologies if it was him. I...
Jul 9, 20213 min read
A BANK IN BATTLEDRESS
I doubt whether many people reading this will know that a large number of DCO employees packed up their jobs and went off to war during...
Jul 9, 20214 min read
MIKE'S OWN STORIES
Of all the auditors I worked with (And there were many) Mike was easily the one I appreciated most as a boss and a friend. I know of no...
Jul 8, 20216 min read
GOLF IN STERKSPRUIT
You have probably already read about Crawley's "spider" - well, here are some more stories from the same "Golf" course COLIN CLONKED In...
Jul 8, 20218 min read
MIKE DE VILLIERS - A GREAT FELLOW TRAVELLER
Elsewhere in these essays I have stated that Mike was not only a really super boss, he was also a good friend. We worked together for...
Jul 8, 202119 min read
THE GOLD COINS AND I
In 1967 I was sent to Philippolis as agency teller. The then Verwoerd Dam (Now Gariep Dam) was being built and at the coffer dam stage....
Jul 8, 20212 min read
MR MORLEY GETS ANGRY
Apart from that “swing at me” incident, I saw Bush really cross only once. We were at Jones Street in Kimberley and Bush was battling...
Jul 8, 20212 min read
MR MORLEY IS PUGNACIOUS
Bush was normally a quiet, peace-loving man not given to belligerent behavior. He was rather short and stocky and reminiscent in looks of...
Jul 8, 20211 min read
MEETING MR MORLEY FOR THE FIRST TIME
In 1976 I was in Durban with Mr Roberts’ team and had been for some six months. I loved it there and already had a ticket for the Gold...
Jul 8, 20213 min read
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