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By: 2summers

2summers — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:16:52 +0000

In reply to Josie Adler. Hi Josie, oh yes, Ma Vee and many other figures will feature in the tour!

By: 2summers

2summers — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:15:38 +0000

In reply to Lani. Interesting! We’ve had these in Joburg for about 10 years but they haven’t taken off in other neighborhoods as much as they seem to in Noordgesig. We have a few of them in Melville.

By: Lani

Lani — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 02:33:05 +0000

OMG. We have those same tuk tuks in Siem Reap. They’re actually new for us because the last time we were here (6-8 years ago), our tuk tuks were carriages being pulled by motorbikes. These new ones (like your photo) are called pass apps (named after the app you use to get one). The most common color is white and yellow. I think they’ve been here for a year or two. Haven’t seen a red one yet! I use these to get to and from work!

By: Josie Adler

Josie Adler — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:10:05 +0000

I very much enjoy following your footsteps, Heather, in the country and the city of my birth, Johannesburg. Reading about people living in Noordgesig now, it concerns me that the historic memory of this place does not feature. Perhaps you will enquire what the tour guides know and share about about Noordgesig people “from before”, like the indomitable “Ma Vee” – Vesta Smith and her family, Noordgesig community leaders and organisers and lifelong activists over many decades. Too often in eGoli much of the lives of most people blows away in the dust of the mines. Young people, going to vote and make the now-SA, can be inspired and strengthened by handed-on recollection to stand on those strong community shoulders and the foundations they laid. https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/vesta-smith