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Yes! I am a vaalie hahah. Oh yes, there are many great fishing spots. And my girlfriend also said that she liked the town as I took her to all the places I still have a memory of. But as you said, things change and it becomes a strange thing to witness. I went to the house in which I grew up, and it changed completely. All that remains is the vague memories that return when I think of the old place. As time moves on, I might also lose the roots that were there. The only constant is change, right?

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We are all what the locals call "imports", and more of us arrive in the Cape every day !LOL
There is a place called Heaven on Vaal, near Vanderbijl and I have had some great successes there in the past. We also got trapped there one year in a very bad flood. Since I have taken up photography, my fishing gear is rusting away, as I don't fish anymore.
Constant changes and our roots are getting eroded, so much so, that one is starting to feel like a stranger in the country. But such is life.

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Oh for sure. I am busy with African philosophy, and for obvious reasons, I cannot call this my home. But since doing this, I have slowly been losing my "Afrikaans" roots, just because I transitioned to English and due to the content of my work. Funny thing, this feeling of being in-between something that excludes you and something to which you cannot fully return.

Oh my, that must have been a scare. I know my parents always talked about the many flooding of the vaal, I think we experienced one but I was too little to remember it all.

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A difficult scenario that we all face and I at this stage, according to what some of the current hopeful politicians are saying before the elections, it could get much worse. So we might have no homeland anymore and people are already leaving in droves. But such is life, and we are survivors.

It was a very bad experience and thankfully we managed to get out. Many houses and farms below the dam wall were simply washed away, and it was as if they had never existed.

!PIZZA

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And now the winds have blown us away! If it is not the rains that threaten to flood us, it is the winds that blow everything down in its path.

I hope that you did not suffer much damage?

So true. But for time being, if our safety is relatively fine, I will remain. I love this place, and I will for as long as possible remain.

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Yep, the wind formed a partnership with the rain and the fire, and that's never a good thing. So many damages all over, and I have only posted a minimum of it. Fortunately we had no damages.

We are the same and too old to go anywhere in any case, so we will just continue to stick it out.

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Oh yes, but in all of the damage, I am seeing so much new growth as well. The plants that got badly damaged in my garden are again flourishing in the colder weather. We are just waiting for the winter rains to arrive now.

Same here. I just need to somehow traverse adult life, find a stable job, and begin the settling down process. Neither me nor my girlfriend wants to travel for work, we want to travel for fun!

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Thankfully nature recovers itself after every fire and storm, and I am sure that the rains will come soon.

Settling down is never an easy thing, but you have the right ideas and a stable job will for sure be a start. So, now you have a girlfriend and a fiancée ? That's going to work out very costly in your future as to keep both happy will keep you bankrupt !LOL

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