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Yoo-hoo! Enige Suid Afrikaanse Barbelithers?

hachiman

09:20 / 31.10.04

Hi i'm Hachiman. I've been a lurker on this site a few years now, and have recently begun to pen the occasional post, in the Comics area mostly. I am just wondering if any 'Lithers are from or in South Africa like myself.
( As i am typing this i am sitting at a computer in Cape Town, lovely day too.)
I would be most happy to get in touch fellow Rainbow Nationals( local in-joke

), though anyone else interested is welcome to get in touch as well.
Please be patient if waiting for a reply, as regular internet access is something of a hit-and-miss affair for me.
Totsiens, en goobaai

grant

20:11 / 01.11.04

Hi! I'm not exactly a South African, but sort of -- conceived in Johannesburg, birthed in Miami Beach.

My mother's mother was a Ferreira (as in vatting her goud and trekking), and my father's father was an SABC sportscaster, if that makes a difference.

I have a cousin in Cape Town right now... she married an American soldier in Germany, he got shipped off to Baghdad, she went home to her parents to wait for him. They live in a rehabbed stable house sort of near Table Mountain. Claremont, that's where it is.

I know there were a couple other, real ZA lithers around here somewhere.

How's it?

hachiman

09:58 / 04.11.04

Is ooraait, en jy?

Good to know i am not the only one around, though i would like to hear from the rest.
Your Oupa was a Sabc sportscaster huh? Which one? Not Trevor Quirk i hope?

Your still in Miami i assume? About all i know about Miami is what i've read in Carl Hiaasen, sounds like a mad house, but cant be any worse then Cape Town gets at times. Claremont is at the Northern foot of Tabe Mountain, pretty good area, just really expensive, what with the local property boom. My condolences on Bush winning. It pretty much puts paid to any hope i had of visiting your country. Even if a Muslim boy like me could get a visa, i dont fancy getting stripsearched at JFK. Not my idea of a good time.
see you around, will post in awhile again

w1rebaby

12:58 / 04.11.04

My family are South African and I'm told I do a good Transvaal accent, if that's any help. I however was born in London after my parents emigrated in the 70s.

The rest of the family is still mostly there, apart from a couple in England. They're not really around Cape Town, more Jo'burg way.

Lord Morgue

06:57 / 05.11.04

Here's a link to give our African 'Lithers a bit of home.
Surfrikaans

So... anyone seen those fine South African films, "Kill or be Killed", and "Kill and Kill Again"?

grant

20:21 / 05.11.04

Those movies rock, yes.

Claremont's expensive now? Uncle Fritz has lived there for decades -- his house used to be part of a plantation or vineyard that got converted into a subdivision.

fridge: what part of Johannesburg do you have family in? My grandmother's buried in Rivonia. Wait -- have we had this conversation before?

My grandfather was Ian Balfour (no relation to the minister of sport, as far as I know).

Lord Morgue

06:58 / 14.11.04

Hey, question for S.A. Liths.
Ken Gampu seems to show up in every movie from South Africa I see- The Gods Must Be Crazy, Brutal Glory, Kill and Kill Again, Lethal Ninja... Was he as famous in Africa as I'd assume?
Jeez, I just Googled him- schoolteacher, law clerk, interpreter- nine languages! Some musicals under his belt, too.

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