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Cool pics!!!!
Great job.
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Posted: 2013-01-23 12:38:53
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Thanks for sharing your town with us
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Posted: 2013-01-24 01:25:00
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Great pics there. SA looks very smart and modern. Nice gadgets too but you got Woolworths?? Is that the same Woolworths we used to have here in UK that went into liquidation??
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Posted: 2013-01-24 01:35:00
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Thanks guys, im going to get a few more shots and then get this paper moving again.
Sean
I think they were the same and then split up, Woolworths here then went from serving the mid end market to the higher end, and they split the clothes and food, so Woolworths Food is a top end grocery shop found in most mid to upper class suburb's mini shopping centers, whilest Woolworths clothing and Woolworths Home are found at mid to upper end shopping malls.
SA is trying, unfortunetly for every modern looking suburb there are informal settlements ridden with poverty, and due to lack of informal jobs there is quite a lot of crime as at the end of the day the vast majority of our population is living in poverty, but our government is sort of, kind of, getting around to working on it....when they finally stop doing $34million upgrades to the presidents personal compound and are done splashing tax payers money on top end German cars and chartering private jets for personal use, i love my country, never a dull day
not with our government.
[ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2013-01-24 06:24 ]
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Posted: 2013-01-24 07:19:34
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Great pictures
and Governments can truly be entertaining, unintentionally of course
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Posted: 2013-01-24 10:08:10
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Great pics! You live in a beautiful place!
When we see some more of these sunny pics, instead of our snow, mist and dull grey skies, we'll pack our bags and come to visit you
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Posted: 2013-01-25 06:20:20
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True. I could do with some nice warm spring sunshine now. The cold wind today is horrible and I slipped on the ice. Anyway looking forward to see where it heads next
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Posted: 2013-01-25 17:00:00
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Great we are back in business. Thanks for the pictures and comments.
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Posted: 2013-01-27 06:48:02
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Okay so I have taken the last set of pics, the paper will be on the move later this week, it's been a long time since I've posted a letter
will pay my local postal office a visit between tomorrow and Wednesday.
Will upload the last few pics a little later,it's been an honour to be part of this guys, just wanted to share my bit of the world and I got that chance despite the strange looks I got when I put up a paper to take pics of in a public place
today I was in the city, when I was taking pics of the museum I could hear the car guards chatting in seSotho (one of our 11 official languages), one asked the other if I'm a photography student, the other was like "Maybe his a foreigner, look how lite he is"
little do they know I understand, my lite skin complexion confuses some, some think I'm mixed race so they only speak English to me, can be a bit frustrating but whatever, it comes with being a lite skinned black dude, this paper thing also had me exploring and noticing areas I never really paid attention to, so thanks a lot!
[ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2013-01-28 12:05 ]
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Posted: 2013-01-28 13:02:19
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A few more pics as promised
Some traffic on the highway on the way home from Jobrug central
Something interesting about Gauteng, our Winters are dry, although we did get snow last year, but generally winters are dry, and our summers are wet, so we get a lot of rain, its raining pretty hard as i write this
Took a drive into Sandton which is fast becoming the "The New Johannesburgs City Center"
Here is a fancy hote known as The Micheal Angelo, under it is a few high end bars, clothing shops, clubs and Sandton Mall where we like to do our clothes shopping
Driving through Sandton:
A building that was finished around a year ago in Sandton, it houses a law firm amongst other companies
Next is a few pics of Melrose Arch, not far from Sandton, Melrose is a city in a city, its our own little version of Manhattan i guess??? Its full of top end hotels, restaurants, clothing shops, expensive apartments etc... Its a millionaires little heaven, the perfect place for rich bachelors and young couples who are wealthy, with everything being within walking distance, there are also offices of a few companies in here:
A bit of the old Johannesburg City
The University of Wiwatersrand known simply as Wits, its an Afrikaans name so W is pronounced as V, so its Vits. This is one of its MANY entrances
Nelson Mandela Bridge:
More of old Joburg
And thats it folks
[ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2013-01-28 17:57 ]
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Posted: 2013-01-28 18:51:58
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