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Letters
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From: Howardmanthey@aol.com
To: contact@mufulira.co.za
Cc: mwspine@iafrica
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:27 PM
Subject: LOOKING FOR BRIAN FRANCIS
Dear Ms Simcox,
We are trying to trace the whereabouts of Brian Francis.
Brian was at school with us at St Charles College Scottsville Pietermaritzburg and matriculated in December 1956.
Brian lived in Mufulira and our efforts to trace him have so far
failed, possibly you may know of him.
I am copying in Gerry Daniels who lives in your part of the
world, Germiston I think, as we recently met here in Pickwick near Corsham Wiltshire England where I live, and spoke of missing ex St Charles school friends.
I used to live in
Zambia, early 1964 through to the beginning of 1976, I worked for Barclays Bank in most of the Copperbelt towns but not Mufulira.
We
were part of the
1956 matric
class at St
Charles College,
a boarding
school in Pietermaritzburg, and
I guess that
Brian would then
have been 17 or
18 years old.
A 50th
anniversary
reunion was held
in Nov 2006 in
Pietermaritzburg,
but we unfortunately
had no idea of how
to contact
Brian. His
father was an
electrician on
the Mufulira
Copper Mine, and
he had a sister
Denise who I
think completed
her schooling at
the Loop Street
convent in
Pietermaritzburg a
few years later.
I
spent the 1956
July school
holidays with
Brian and his
family in
Mufulira, and
one of the other
Muf families I
met were the
Erlanks.
If I remember
correctly, they
had 2 daughters,
the elder of
which was named
Eugene who did
her senior
schooling at
Kaffrarian Girls
High School in
the Eastern Cape.
Kind Regards and Best wishes for 2008
Howard Manthey
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From:
Bugs
Sent:
Thursday,
January 10,
2008 3:06 PM
Subject:
Please place
this notice on
the Mufulira
home page
Greetings,
does anybody
have a few snap
of Rodwins?
Do send them on
please, need to
show my
daughters what
we had then.
Cheers
and kind
regards,
Bugs
Da Silva.
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From:
ANDREW TAVENER
Sent:
Saturday,
February 23,
2008 2:39 AM
Subject:
Please place
this notice on
the Mufulira
home page
It
is with deep
regret that i have
to report the
death of Suzanne
Tavener, nee.
Gibbs, nee
Cassidy, she
always remembered
Mufulira and the
many memories of
her life there. We
just never got the
opportunity for
her to get back to
Mufilira, where
her beloved Dad,
Jack is buried. |
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From: "Jheanne C Hugo"
To: <contact@mufulira.co.za>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:10 PM
Subject: Please add my contact info to the Mufulira Contacts List
> I am looking for anyone who may have known my parents Robert (Bob) and
> Blanche Tink (nee Canot).
> Bob was chairman of many of the Mufulira sports clubs in the
early sixties,
> especially cricket, and used to own the industrial drycleaning business
> whose main customers were the mines and the hospitals.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Joy Hugo |
From: Amanda Cannan
To: contact@mufulira.co.za
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:02 PM
Subject: Please add my contact info to the Mufulira Contacts List
Hi I have just found this website and I am rather in shock – thought it was part of my life lost and forgotten.
My name is Amanda but was know as Mandy Stewart as a child. We lived in Mufulira between 1967 -1971
My Father was Donald Stewart Deputy Town Engineer during this time.
My Mother is Sheila Stewart who taught and ran a nursery at Pooh Corner.
We are four children Mark Mandy Paul and Penny and lived at 9 Viscount Ave which changed to Kudu St.
Mark went to the Covent and I went to Eastlea.
Please add my details I may find someone I knew back then.
Amanda Cannan (nee Stewart)
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Sent:
Friday,
January 25,
2008 3:34 PM
Can
anyone please tell
me where I can
purchase a replica
Zambian football
kit?
Steve, Cardiff,
Wales.
stevenicola03@hotmail.com
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From:
John
Sent:
Thursday,
January 31,
2008 3:53 PM
Subject:
Mufulira
Hi all,
I
was browsing the
net when I came
across this
stunning site.
Thanks!!!!
My
name is John de
Villiers, I was
born in Dec 1953
and stayed at
D32 and later at
28 Ndola Road in
Muf. I went Mary
Moffat primary
and then Estlea
Primary. I would
like to make
contact with a
Marylon Ray,
Josephine Ray,
Harold Ray, Anne
Terry, Sillie
van Zyl.
Thanks
again for
the site
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hi
its the Maher
family from
Blackburn
England trying
to contact or
speak to someone
who remembers us
all from
Mufulira Zambia
in the years
from 1973 to
1984. We would
love to get in
contact with any
of our old
friends so if
anybody knows us
that reads this
message please
try and get in
touch. Look
forward to
hearing from
you.
Marion Maher
telephone
Blackburn 01254
208389
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From:
raywilson
To: contact@mufulira.co.za
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: Please add my contact info to the Mufulira Contacts List
Hello,
I would like to update my details on the MUFULIRA web page, (which is really well done - by the way ! )
I am planning to go - have a 'look see weekend' -to Mufulira and copperbelt, was wondering if anyone could recommend good mid range hotels -Mufulira or Kitwe ? or have any other advice ?
I work in Television Production in Zam- Zim and RSA -and am running my small guesthouses in Cape
Town & Johannesburg
www.twotwentyfour.co.za for anyone interested.
Also on the look out for any old friends who might visit this web site : Jitendra Sampat, John Fairbairn, Jean Walker,
-anyone got this info ?
Good to read stuff from Deric Collocott, Paul Cowie. Fern Girdlestone. I have also heard some time back from : Maureen Harbour/Werner, Heather Marr, Beryl Farnsworth, Rhondass Small, Melanie Wilson Small, Barry Collocott, Max - ? Albert Lagnado,
I will be sending some pics of Mufulira, - 2008 -to you on my return - wonder how different they will be !
Keep up this good web site -lets all send in some donations - however small -- This was our life !!
Kind regards
Ray
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From:
Pauline
Subject: Please
add me to your
contact list
Date: Mon, 4 Feb
2008 22:19:15
+0000
My name is Pauline
Wykerd Nee
Edwards. I live in
USA my phone
number is 1 516
673 4426 and I am
on skpe as well.
Sorry I forgot to
say that I lived
in Mufulira from
1957 to 1966.
Worked in Standard
Bank and got a
transfer down to
Durban Standard
Bank.
Thank you
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Sent:
Sunday, March
09, 2008 7:17
AM
Subject:
Looking up old
friends of the
50's
Morning
to all,
Am
writing on
behalf of my
father, C A
Janson, Fred.
He is living in
Marble Hall now,
and will be 88
in Oktober.
Very up and
going still,
must be the old
Mufulira water.
He is still very
active in the
science line and
updates and
would like to
contact people
of the Mufulira
mine now, to
know how they
are doing stuff
now. He
was responsible
for many changes
in the mining
process all over
the world during
his work and
studies at
Mufulira.
Going in on the
websites of
Mufulira now, My
heart nearly
broke and the
'plundering'
sorry afrikaans
word, of Africa
is absolutely
******.
Mind
you, that is
going on all
over the world,
that the rich
countries are
'plundering' the
so-called 3rd
world countries.
I
would gladly
forward any
e-mails and
information to
him as I 'look
after him', not
that he needs
it, or wants it.
Thanking
you,
Daleen
Coetzee
daleenc@vodamail.co.za
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From:
Anita &
Stephen
Sent:
Saturday,
March 15, 2008
8:58 PM
Hello,
My
name is Anita
Wareham (nee
Trapnell).
I lived in
Mufulira from
1968 to 1969.
I attended
Mufulira High
School. We
used to live in
Canberra Avenue,
then Kent
Avenue, also we
lived in the
flats behind the
Top shops.
Sadly our time
there was marred
as my family and
I were involved
in a road
accident on the
way to Ndola.
My brother
Julian was
killed. He
used to work for
Delta Electric
as a TV
engineer.
My father was a
teacher at
Eastleigh
Primary School
where I used to
go and join in
with the pupils
and play
netball.
(His name was
Patrick
TrapnellI and my
mum was Marian.
I remember the
Dambo. I
also remember
some names from
the past.
The Mulligan
Family, I used
to play with
Anne the
daughter, also
the Schmidt
family (Julie in
particular).
Some other
teachers I
remember were
Steve Tresseder,
Robbie Ivers,
Edgar Lundel.
After
the accident all
my family were
in hospital with
their injuries,
but I was
unharmed.
I went to work
in a shop which
was owned by a
Scotsman.
We used to sell
shoes, fabric,
menswear, ladies
wear etc.
I cannot
remember the
name offhand.
It was down the
bottom of the
main street
opposite a shop
owned by some
Greeks.
I
do have some
photos of the
pupils from
Eastleigh
Primary if
anyone is
interested.
Also I would be
interested to
know if anyone
can remember us.
Looking
forward to
hearing from
you,
Anita.
anita.stephen@wanadoo.fr
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