Shosholoza!
By Tom Brown
“There is always something new out of Africa.”
Ex Africa semper alliquid novi
–Pliny the Elder AD 23 - 79
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Attack and destroy!
In the mini bus our motto was “Val aan en vernietig!” Attack and destroy! For our away matches the team spirit was more like a rock band than a chess...
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Aunty Annie's Bible study sessions
We met at a normal conventional Bible study I was a visitor. I was treated well by the young people and felt welcome. Mary-Anne was apparently more of a guest speaker.
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Bible Punching
They see you coming from a mile. It is often really really hard to break loose once they have their grip. They are wolves in sheep's clothes...
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Bread upon the water
We weren't actually supposed to be there but we discovered a hole in the fence you could get your bicycle in through too or lifted over the fence...
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Fishing Magic Morning
Up early still dark excited and happy we can't wait everything is ready. We wake and get up even before the early birds the empty streets very quiet...
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Love Longsuffering
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. ~ Genesis 29: 20 As a hart roams in the...
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Most beautiful of Love-Songs
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N1 Highway
This stretch of road they call the hell highway, past near that familiar silhouette of the famous ghost house of Pretoria. My brother had an accident...
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Siren!!
Mercedes-Benz fire engines in the bleak-deserted half-dark hangars are patiently waiting in echoes, polished to mirrors. A few men are still playing at cards and darts, there’s a chess game going.
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The consultation
Lyttelton 1994 Dr v.Vake’s consulting rooms - - - “Please, have a seat. Your name?”, “Timothy Tucker.” “The complaint?”, “Chronic diarrhea.”
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The guy
There was once a guy. On a typical day in the life of the guy he was woken by his mother's domestic worker with a mug of sweet tea next to his bed...
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The Nicotine Addict
What is Nicotine? A highly toxic poisonous chemical that works on the central nervous system both as stimulant or tranquilliser, the physiological...
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Midnight and Darkness
Up a one way street lost and driving without my glasses even at night and drunk. This was very long ago and I was mentally not well at the time I don...
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Organic farming and lice
From Buffaloe's Town to Katkart had a late start looking for a place to sleep over. Some locals referred me to this “backpacker's” place not...
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The Maze
The Kruger Park is big. Really Big. Paul Kruger was a man with vision he established this wild reserve long ago. Once stumbling from a function a...
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Just a scared little boy
The other day in a mall nearby I lost my way it's like a maze there it was very scary. There are weird tunnels across the walkway from a supermarket...
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The Nicotine Addict
Can you blow circles one inside the other? And smoke out the mouth into the nose or put the cigarettes out on your tongue? Play chicken with a...
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Smoking Outside
One of my best friends at school's father was a senior officer in the Air Force, later on whenever I visited there he would forbid me from going...
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Jack Brown
My great grandfather Frank Brown was miraculously of a handful survivors in the battle of Delville Wood, where the South African infantry was wiped...
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The Black Dog
Jet fuel and petrol are ethanol, that is ethyl alcohol. It is highly combustible and surgical alcohol is generally used for disinfecting killing...
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shaft of sunlight
Watch that shaft of sunlight through the smoke and dust, a bright patch slowly crawling on the wall to tell the time. ~ Waking slowly. This was...
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Sleeping Late
Oh how I hate to get up in the morning, oh how I love to remain in bed, the hardest thing of all is to hear the bugler call, You got'to get up, you...
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The Fire Brigade
Unsung Heroes Firemen are of great courage, and of all emergency and dangerous professions fire fighting is noblest. They save lives while the others...
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Checkmate!
Super-Sneaker had won the prize for the best school attendance with no absence at all for the twelve school years, at the opening when it was...
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Gospel Concert
We went to some gospel concerts at the rugby stadium it was Don Francisco he never asked entrance fees only donations, even for the songs, free on...
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Class of '84
Also your greatest of all advantage in a chess game is to have your opponent underestimate you. Myself don't attend reunions I'm usually busy then,...
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Bunkers
Beginning high-school the lowest class he lent me rugby toggs and a jersey from someone for my first rugby game, I was on lock even being the...
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Bunkers, Dads and Clubs
At last freed in the real world now, but my dad died and I a rebel without a cause. During third year engineering studies my grandfather died also...
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